National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1451

Overview

MySQL Manager in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.6, when setting up a new MySQL database server, does not use the "New MySQL root password" that is provided, which causes the MySQL root password to be blank and allows local users to gain full privileges to that database.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release: Apple, Mac OS X, 10.4.6 (2006-003)}

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-132A

Name: TA06-132A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-132A.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2006-05-11

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1779

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1779

External Source: XF

Name: macos-mysql-manager-blank-password(26420)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26420

External Source: BID

Name: 17951

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17951

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 25595

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/25595

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016077

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016077

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20077

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20077