https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-56/ PMASA-2016-56 Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-56 Date: 2016-07-25 Summary Remote code execution vulnerability when PHP is running with dbase extension Description A vulnerability was discovered where phpMyAdmin can be used to trigger a remote code execution attack against certain PHP installations. Severity We consider this vulnerability to be critical. Mitigation factor This vulnerability only exists when PHP is running with the dbase extension, which is not shipped by default, not available in most Linux distributions, and doesn't compile with PHP7. Affected Versions 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 Solution Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4, 4.4.15.8, 4.0.10.17, or newer or apply patch listed below. References Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability. Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6633 CWE ids: CWE-661 Patches The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue: 378c382 The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue: f80a250 The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue: ddeab2a