Oracle MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server - Privilege Escalation via my.cnf
Title source: llmDescription
Oracle MySQL through 5.5.52, 5.6.x through 5.6.33, and 5.7.x through 5.7.15; MariaDB before 5.5.51, 10.0.x before 10.0.27, and 10.1.x before 10.1.17; and Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.1, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78.0, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-7 allow local users to create arbitrary configurations and bypass certain protection mechanisms by setting general_log_file to a my.cnf configuration. NOTE: this can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by setting malloc_lib. NOTE: the affected MySQL version information is from Oracle's October 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that the issue was silently patched in MySQL 5.5.52, 5.6.33, and 5.7.15.
Exploits (9)
exploitdb
WORKING POC
by Dawid Golunski · pythonlocallinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40360
nomisec
WORKING POC
9 stars
by Ashrafdev · remote-auth
https://github.com/Ashrafdev/MySQL-Remote-Root-Code-Execution
nomisec
WRITEUP
by konstantin-kelemen · poc
https://github.com/konstantin-kelemen/mysqld_safe-CVE-2016-6662-patch
References (27)
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.8958
EPSS Percentile
99.6%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Lab Environment
Details
VulnCheck KEV
2024-05-14
CWE
CWE-264
Status
published
Products (24)
debian/debian_linux
8.0
mariadb/mariadb
5.5.20 - 5.5.51
oracle/mysql
5.5.0 - 5.5.52
percona/percona_server
5.5 - 5.5.51-38.1
redhat/enterprise_linux
7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop
6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop
7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server
6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus
7.3
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus
7.4
... and 14 more
Published
Sep 20, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026