THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2012-5613
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2012-5613

Mariadb vulnerability

CVSS
6.0
EPSS
31.7%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
MySQL 5.5.19 and possibly other versions, and MariaDB 5.5.28a and possibly other versions, when configured to assign the FILE privilege to users who should not have administrative privileges, allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging the FILE privilege to create files as the MySQL administrator. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating that this is only a vulnerability when the administrator does not follow recommendations in the product's installation documentation. NOTE: it could be argued that this should not be included in CVE because it is a configuration issue.
Affected vendor
Mariadb
Affected product
Mariadb
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/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, medium 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 31.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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