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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2016-6625 json

phpMyAdmin allows to detect if user is logged in

published 2016-12-11 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-r643-7xfg-ppc5 , EUVD-2022-5106

cvss
4.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An attacker can determine whether a user is logged in to phpMyAdmin. The user's session, username, and password are not compromised by this vulnerability. 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.

Patch / fix

  • packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.0.10.17, 4.4.15.8, 4.6.4
  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6625

  • phpMyAdmin openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.6.5.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10054-1

  • phpmyadmin Alpine 3.2 4.4.15.8-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2016-6625

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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-2016-6625 updated

phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 4.0.10.18, 4.4.15.9 and 4.6.5 versions

  • 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

1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 4.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 4.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
>=4.6, <4.6.4
>=4.4, <4.4.15.8
>=4.0, <4.0.10.17
4.6.4
4.4.15.8
4.0.10.17

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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