THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2012-5612
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2012-5612

Mariadb vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
20.8%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Heap-based buffer overflow in Oracle MySQL 5.5.19 and other versions through 5.5.28, and MariaDB 5.5.28a and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using certain variations of the (1) USE, (2) SHOW TABLES, (3) DESCRIBE, (4) SHOW FIELDS FROM, (5) SHOW COLUMNS FROM, (6) SHOW INDEX FROM, (7) CREATE TABLE, (8) DROP TABLE, (9) ALTER TABLE, (10) DELETE FROM, (11) UPDATE, and (12) SET PASSWORD commands.
Affected vendor
Mariadb
Affected product
Mariadb
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2012-12-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 20.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2012-5612

  • Confirm whether Mariadb Mariadb is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-5612.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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