CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-2162
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-08-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race condition in the post-installation script (mysql-server-5.5.postinst) for MySQL Server 5.5 for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Linux creates a configuration file with world-readable permissions before restricting the permissions, which allows local users to read the file and obtain sensitive information such as credentials.
Affected configurations
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 13.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711600 Exploit
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/528 seclists.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54300 Vendor Advisory
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1909-1 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2818 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60424 www.securityfocus.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711600 Exploit
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/528 seclists.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54300 Vendor Advisory
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1909-1 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2818 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60424 www.securityfocus.com