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.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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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 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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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 |