CVE-2012-5627
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4 · CWE-522
4CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Oracle MySQL and MariaDB 5.5.x before 5.5.29, 5.3.x before 5.3.12, and 5.2.x before 5.2.14 does not modify the salt during multiple executions of the change_user command within the same connection which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to conduct brute force password guessing attacks.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)11%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xmlPatch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883719Patch
- https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3915Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/424Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53372
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:102
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/58Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/83Advisory