What is CVE-2016-6609?

CVE-2016-6609 is a high-severity vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-12-11.

How severe is CVE-2016-6609?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

RCE in phpMyAdmin

CVE-2016-6609

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A specially crafted database name could be used to run arbitrary PHP commands through the array export feature. 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.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2016-12-11 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.023 (82.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 82.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000

Affected products

phpMyAdmin — versions 4.4.0, 4.4.1, 4.4.1.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/94112 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-32 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html (mailing-list)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-6609?: CVE-2016-6609 is a high-severity vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-12-11.
How severe is CVE-2016-6609?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.