CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6664

7.0 HIGH Published 2016-12-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• oracle mysql (>= 5.5.0 <= 5.5.51) • oracle mysql (>= 5.6.0 <= 5.6.32) • oracle mysql (>= 5.7.0 <= 5.7.14) • mariadb mariadb (>= 5.5.0 < 5.5.54) • mariadb mariadb (>= 10.0.0 < 10.0.29) • mariadb mariadb (>= 10.1.0 < 10.1.21) • percona percona server (>= 5.5 < 5.5.51-38.2) • percona percona server (>= 5.6 < 5.6.32-78.1) • percona percona server (>= 5.7 < 5.7.14-8) • percona xtradb cluster (>= 5.5 < 5.5.41-37.0) • percona xtradb cluster (>= 5.6 < 5.6.32-25.17) • percona xtradb cluster (>= 5.7 < 5.7.14-26.17)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References