CVE-2016-6633 phpMyAdmin Remote code execution vulnerability when PHP is running with dbase extension

What is CVE-2016-6633?

CVE-2016-6633 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin, published on 11 Dec 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. phpMyAdmin can be used to trigger a remote code execution attack against certain PHP installations that are running with the dbase extension. 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6633?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin. It affects 1 product.

Products include Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6633?

Upgrade phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin to a fixed version for your release line: 4.0.10.17, 4.4.15.8 or 4.6.4.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2016-6633 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6633 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin

• CVE-2008-7251 Misconfiguration in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-7252 phpMyAdmin unsafely handles temporary files Critical 10.0
• CVE-2007-0203 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-1147 Command injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2020-22452 phpmyadmin contains SQL Injection vulnerability Critical 9.8

All Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-6633, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6633, GHSA-p849-vf5f-f3x7, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6633.