CVE-2016-2562

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2562
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2562.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2562
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-03-01T11:59:04.643Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:48:52.338904519Z
Severity
  • 6.8 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The checkHTTP function in libraries/Config.class.php in phpMyAdmin 4.5.x before 4.5.5.1 does not verify X.509 certificates from api.github.com SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof these servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "4.5.0-beta1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.5.0-beta1"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "4.5.0-beta2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.5.0-beta2"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Events
Introduced
796e6ae09301a7ea8aae74fdb3bb44538c0f5151
Last affected
4b3c91b0f5c19afec21a909f80bd4fd0e0a056dc
Fixed
e42b7e3aedd29dd0f7a48575f20bfc5aca0ff976
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:4.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "4.5.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.5.0-rc1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.0-rc1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.5.0.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.0.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.5.0.2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.0.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.5.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.5.2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.5.3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.5.3.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.3.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.5.4"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.5.4.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.4.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.5.5"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.5"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.5.0
4.5.0-rc1
4.5.0.1
4.5.0.2
4.5.1
4.5.2
4.5.3
4.5.3.1
4.5.4
4.5.4.1
4.5.5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2562.json"