CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
35.0%
According to its version number, the remote version of MySQL is
prone to a security-bypass vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:mysql:mysql";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.100156");
script_version("2023-07-27T05:05:08+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-27 05:05:08 +0000 (Thu, 27 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-04-23 21:21:19 +0200 (Thu, 23 Apr 2009)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2079", "CVE-2008-4097", "CVE-2008-4098");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.6");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_name("MySQL MyISAM Table Privileges Security Bypass Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Databases");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("mysql_version.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("MySQL/installed");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29106");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"According to its version number, the remote version of MySQL is
prone to a security-bypass vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker can exploit this issue to gain access to table files created by
other users, bypassing certain security restrictions.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"NOTE 1: This issue was also assigned CVE-2008-4097 because
CVE-2008-2079 was incompletely fixed, allowing symlink attacks.
NOTE 2: CVE-2008-4098 was assigned because fixes for the vector
described in CVE-2008-4097 can also be bypassed.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"This issue affects versions prior to MySQL 4 (prior to 4.1.24) and
MySQL 5 (prior to 5.0.60).");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Updates are available, please see the references for more information.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!port = get_app_port(cpe:CPE)) exit(0);
if(!ver = get_app_version(cpe:CPE, port:port)) exit(0);
if(version_in_range(version:ver, test_version:"4.0", test_version2:"4.1.23") ||
version_in_range(version:ver, test_version:"5.0", test_version2:"5.0.59") ) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:ver, fixed_version:"4.1.24/5.0.60");
security_message(port:port, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);