alpine-cve-2016-9849

CVSS 9.8 osv_alpine
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.

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CVSS Details

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Affected Products

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References
Linked Vulnerabilities

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2016-9849.json"
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.2",
        "name": "phpmyadmin",
        "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/phpmyadmin?arch=source"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.4.15.9-r0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2016-9849.json"
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.4",
        "name": "phpmyadmin",
        "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/phpmyadmin?arch=source"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.6.5.2-r0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "ALPINE-CVE-2016-9849",
  "modified": "2026-09-22T06:30:43.631791433Z",
  "published": "2016-12-11T02:59:47.083Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-9849"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.9.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2016-9849"
  ]
}
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