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CVE-2016-6631

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 4.75% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-12-11 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
remote code execution code execution

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CVE
CVE-2016-6631
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.75%

Original NVD Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can execute a remote code execution attack against a server when phpMyAdmin is being run as a CGI application. Under certain server configurations, a user can pass a query string which is executed as a command-line argument by the file generator_plugin.sh. 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.