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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2016-6664
HistoryDec 13, 2016 - 9:59 p.m.

Design/Logic Flaw

2016-12-1321:59:00
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8

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.118 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.4%

mysqld_safe in Oracle MySQL through 5.5.51, 5.6.x through 5.6.32, and 5.7.x through 5.7.14; MariaDB; Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.2, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78-1, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-8; and Percona XtraDB Cluster before 5.5.41-37.0, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-25.17, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-26.17, when using file-based logging, allows local users with access to the mysql account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on error logs and possibly other files.