CVE-2012-4452
MySQL 5.0.88, and possibly other versions and platforms, 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 originally associated…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.40%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
MySQL 5.0.88, and possibly other versions and platforms, 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 originally associated with pathnames without symlinks, and that can point to tables created at a future time at which a pathname is modified to contain a symlink to a subdirectory of the MySQL data home directory, related to incorrect calculation of the mysql_unpacked_real_data_home value. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-4030 regression, which was not omitted in other packages and versions such as MySQL 5.0.95 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
- CVSS 2.0
- 2.1 LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.40% probability · 33th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- oracle/mysql
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0121.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55715
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860808
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0121.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55715
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860808
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.