CVE-2016-6630
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.69%
Description
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An authenticated user can trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by entering a very long password at the change password dialog. 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.
How to fix CVE-2016-6630
To remediate CVE-2016-6630, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/phpmyadmin—upgrade to 4.4.15.8-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1 or later
Is CVE-2016-6630 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.4.15.8-r0
- from 0, < 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |