RCE in Oracle MySQL
CVE-2010-2008
MySQL before 5.1.48 allows remote authenticated users with alter database privileges to cause a denial of service (server crash and database loss) via an ALTER DATABASE command with a #mysql50# string followed by a . (dot), .. (dot dot), ../ (dot dot slash) or similar sequence, and an UPGRADE DATA DIRECTORY NAME command, which causes MySQL to move certain directories to the server data directory.
Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)
EPSS: 0.090 (94.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Oracle Mysql
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 10.10, 6.06, 10.04
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 13
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Permissions Required, vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Broken Link)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA, Broken Link)