CVE-2016-5706 phpMyAdmin Denial Of Service (DOS) attack

What is CVE-2016-5706?

CVE-2016-5706 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 3 Jul 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5706?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin. It affects 3 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse, Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5706?

Upgrade phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin to a fixed version for your release line: 4.0.10.16, 4.4.15.7 or 4.6.3.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-5706 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5706 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5706, GHSA-9rmm-8fp4-26hv, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5706.