Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mysql package, versions [,4.1.24)[5.0.0,5.0.60)[5.1.0,5.1.24)[6.0.0,6.0.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MYSQL-2334100
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 May 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 May 2008

CVE-2008-2079  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mysql to version 4.1.24, 5.0.60, 5.1.24, 6.0.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. MySQL 4.1.x before 4.1.24, 5.0.x before 5.0.60, 5.1.x before 5.1.24, and 6.0.x before 6.0.5 allows local users to bypass certain privilege checks by calling CREATE TABLE on a MyISAM table with modified (1) DATA DIRECTORY or (2) INDEX DIRECTORY arguments that are within the MySQL home data directory, which can point to tables that are created in the future.

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