CVE-2022-24050

HIGH

MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of MariaDB. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the processing of SQL queries. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the service account. Was ZDI-CAN-16207.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/security/

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-364/

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220318-0004/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NJ4KDAGF3H4D4BDTHRAM6ZEAJJWWMRUO/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKJRBYJAQCOPHSED43A3HUPNKQLDTFGD/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZFZVMJL5UDTOZMARLXQIMG3BTG6UNYW/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0007

EPSS Percentile 21.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-416

Status published

Products (5)

fedoraproject/fedora 34

fedoraproject/fedora 35

fedoraproject/fedora 36

mariadb/mariadb 10.8.0

mariadb/mariadb 10.2.0 - 10.2.42

Published Feb 18, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026