CVE-2016-9849 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2016-9849

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. It is possible to...

Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. It is possible to bypass AllowRoot restriction ($cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowRoot']) and deny rules for username by using Null Byte in the username. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.9), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.18) are affected.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

phpmyadmin
Vulnerable Versions:
4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4.1, 4.0.4.2, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8, 4.0.9, 4.0.10, 4.0.10.1, 4.0.10.2, 4.0.10.3, 4.0.10.4, 4.0.10.5, 4.0.10.6, 4.0.10.7, 4.0.10.8, 4.0.10.9, 4.0.10.10, 4.0.10.11, 4.0.10.12, 4.0.10.13, 4.0.10.14, 4.0.10.15, 4.0.10.16, 4.0.10.17, 4.6.0, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.3, 4.6.4, 4.4.0, 4.4.1, 4.4.1.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.4, 4.4.5, 4.4.6, 4.4.6.1, 4.4.7, 4.4.8, 4.4.9, 4.4.10, 4.4.11, 4.4.12, 4.4.13, 4.4.13.1, 4.4.14, 4.4.14.1, 4.4.15, 4.4.15.1, 4.4.15.2, 4.4.15.3, 4.4.15.4, 4.4.15.5, 4.4.15.6, 4.4.15.7, 4.4.15.8

Timeline

Official Publish: December 11th, 2016
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.