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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2016-5706 json

phpMyAdmin Denial Of Service (DOS) attack

published 2016-07-03 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-9rmm-8fp4-26hv , EUVD-2022-3444

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.8%
EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

js/get_scripts.js.php in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.16, 4.4.x before 4.4.15.7, and 4.6.x before 4.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large array in the scripts parameter.

Patch / fix

  • packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.0.10.16, 4.4.15.7, 4.6.3
  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:4.6.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5706

  • phpMyAdmin openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.6.5.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10054-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-5706 updated

phpMyAdmin: 4.6.3, 4.4.15.7 and 4.0.10.16 security releases

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
>=4.0, <4.0.10.16
>=4.4, <4.4.15.7
>=4.6, <4.6.3
4.0.10.16
4.4.15.7
4.6.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.