CVE-2016-9864 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. With a crafted username or a table name it was possible to inject SQL statements in the tracking functionality that would run with the privileges of the control user. This gives read and write access to the tables of the configuration storage database and if the control user has the necessary privileges read access to some tables of the MySQL database. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5) 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9) and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94533 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00009.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32 https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-69

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5