UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2561

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2561

    Published: 1 Mar 2016Last Modified: 8 Sept 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-2561

    Summary:

    Details: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 4.4.x before 4.4.15.5 and 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) normalization.php or (2) js/normalization.js in the database normalization page, (3) templates/database/structure/sortable_header.phtml in the database structure page, or (4) the pos parameter to db_central_columns.php in the central columns page.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2561, https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-12/, https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/f33a42f1da9db943a67bda7d29f7dd91957a8e7e, https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/cc55f44a4a90147a007dee1aefa1cb529e23798b, https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/bcd4ce8cba1272fca52f2331c08f2e3ac19cbbef, https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/983faa94f161df3623ecd371d3696a1b3f91c15f, https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/746240bd13b62b5956fc34389cfbdc09e1e67775, https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/37c34d089aa19f30d11203bb0c7f85b486424372, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2561

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: phpmyadmin

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/phpmyadmin@4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4:4.0.6-1
    4:4.0.8-1
    4:4.0.9-1
    4:4.0.10-1
    4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1
    4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm1
    4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm2
    4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm3
    4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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