CVE-2008-4098
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.6 · CWE-59
4.6CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
MySQL before 5.0.67 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 home data directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4097.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32167 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32167Patch
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480292#25Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32578
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32759
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32769
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38517
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-897-1Advisory