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.
Timeline
- Published
- unknown
- Last Modified
- unknown
CVSS Details
CVSS details not available.
Affected Products
No product information available.
Linked Vulnerabilities
No linked vulnerabilities found.
{
"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"
]
}