CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.9. Exploitation may require the attacker to be authenticated. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2016-6622
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.9
EPSS
1.80%
Original NVD Description
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An unauthenticated user is able to execute a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by forcing persistent connections when phpMyAdmin is running with $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true. 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.