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CVE-2016-9849

N/A
Published: December 11, 2016 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:56 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorphpMyAdmin

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. It is possible to bypass AllowRoot restriction ($cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowRoot']) and deny rules for username by using Null Byte in the username. 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.

Remediation

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Patch and advisory references

References (4)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94521
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00009.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-60

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264

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