CVE-2016-9865 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. Due to a bug in serialized string parsing it was possible to bypass the protection offered by PMA_safeUnserialize() function. 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:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94531 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32 https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-70

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8