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CVE-2016-6618

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-6618 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in phpMyAdmin's transformation feature, affecting versions 4.6.x (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x (prior to 4.0.10.17). With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability can be exploited by a low-privileged user over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0185 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpmyadmin/phpmyadminFixed in: 4.6.4
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpmyadmin/phpmyadminFixed in: 4.4.15.8
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpmyadmin/phpmyadminFixed in: 4.0.10.17

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-rv6m-chvv-wmxgmedium

phpMyAdmin Denial of service (DOS) attack in transformation feature

May 14, 2022

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-32
phpmyadmin.net / security/PMASA-2016-41
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95047