Race Condition Affecting mysql package, versions [5.5.0,5.5.53)[5.6.0,5.6.34)[5.7.0,5.7.16)[8.0.0,8.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.61% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MYSQL-2334363
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-6663  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mysql to version 5.5.53, 5.6.34, 5.7.16, 8.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition which allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges by leveraging use of my_copystat by REPAIR TABLE to repair a MyISAM table.

CVSS Scores

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