CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6606

8.1 HIGH Published 2016-12-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200, CWE-310

Description

An issue was discovered in cookie encryption in phpMyAdmin. The decryption of the username/password is vulnerable to a padding oracle attack. This can allow an attacker who has access to a user's browser cookie file to decrypt the username and password. Furthermore, the same initialization vector (IV) is used to hash the username and password stored in the phpMyAdmin cookie. If a user has the same password as their username, an attacker who examines the browser cookie can see that they are the same - but the attacker can not directly decode these values from the cookie as it is still hashed. 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.

Affected configurations

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

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References