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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2017-1000016 json

phpMyAdmin Cookie attribute injection attack

published 2017-07-13 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-j2cq-h6v2-f875 , EUVD-2022-4255

cvss
7.5
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 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A weakness was discovered where an attacker can inject arbitrary values in to the browser cookies. This is a re-issue of an incomplete fix from PMASA-2016-18.

Patch / fix

  • packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.6.6
  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:4.6.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-1000016

  • phpMyAdmin openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.1.1-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11171-1

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-2017-1000016 updated cvss 3.7

phpMyAdmin: Cookie attribute injection attack

  • 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

1.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% 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:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
>=4.6, <4.6.6
4.6.6

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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