Access Restriction Bypass Affecting percona/percona-server package, versions [,5.5.51-38.1)[5.6,5.6.32-78.0)[5.7,5.7.14-7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
67.73% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PERCONAPERCONASERVER-2365670
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-6662  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade percona/percona-server to version 5.5.51-38.1, 5.6.32-78.0, 5.7.14-7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Oracle MySQL through 5.5.52, 5.6.x through 5.6.33, and 5.7.x through 5.7.15; MariaDB before 5.5.51, 10.0.x before 10.0.27, and 10.1.x before 10.1.17; and Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.1, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78.0, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-7 allow local users to create arbitrary configurations and bypass certain protection mechanisms by setting general_log_file to a my.cnf configuration. NOTE: this can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by setting malloc_lib. NOTE: the affected MySQL version information is from Oracle's October 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that the issue was silently patched in MySQL 5.5.52, 5.6.33, and 5.7.15.

CVSS Base Scores

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