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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-5613

Original release date:12/03/2012

Last revised:03/08/2013

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

** DISPUTED ** MySQL 5.5.19 and possibly other versions, and MariaDB 5.5.28a and possibly other versions, when configured to assign the FILE privilege to users who should not have administrative privileges, allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging the FILE privilege to create files as the MySQL administrator. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating that this is only a vulnerability when the administrator does not follow recommendations in the product's installation documentation. NOTE: it could be argued that this should not be included in CVE because it is a configuration issue.

Description

Per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3, this vulnerability is for linux-based software installations.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 6.8

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

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External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20121202 Re: Re: [Full-disclosure] MySQL (Linux) Stack based buffer overrun PoC Zeroday

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20121202 Re: Re: [Full-disclosure] MySQL (Linux) Stack based buffer overrun PoC Zeroday

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20121201 MySQL (Linux) Database Privilege Elevation Zeroday Exploit

Hyperlink:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/6

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2013:0262

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00000.html