CVE-2017-1000016

Publication date 17 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A weakness was discovered where an attacker can inject arbitrary values in to the browser cookies. This is a re-issue of an incomplete fix from PMASA-2016-18.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
phpmyadmin	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

Properly configured server which sets PHP_SELF is not affected by this.

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N