CVE-2016-6622

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CVSS 3.0

5.9 medium

EPSS

2%p77

Published

Dec 11, 2016 (Dec 11, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An unauthenticated user is able to execute a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by forcing persistent connections when phpMyAdmin is running with $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.

Vendors: phpmyadmin
Products: phpmyadmin
Weakness: CWE-399
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.8%)

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