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CVE-2016-6662

Public on 2016-09-20
Modified on 2017-02-22
Description

It was discovered that the MySQL logging functionality allowed writing to MySQL configuration files. An administrative database user, or a database user with FILE privileges, could possibly use this flaw to run arbitrary commands with root privileges on the system running the database server.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
9.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 mysql51 2017-02-22 18:00 ALAS-2017-800
Amazon Linux 1 mysql55 2016-10-12 17:00 ALAS-2016-756
Amazon Linux 1 mysql56 2016-10-12 17:00 ALAS-2016-756

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 7.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H