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phpMyAdmin Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command (OS Command Injection) Vulnerability - CVE-2016-6631 - Vulnerability Database
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phpMyAdmin Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command (OS Command Injection) Vulnerability - CVE-2016-6631

High
Reference: CVE-2016-6631
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6631
Title: phpMyAdmin Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command (OS Command Injection) Vulnerability
Overview:

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.