Improper Access Control - CVE-2018-2562
Published: January 22, 2018 / Updated: January 29, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10263
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-2562
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability exists due to an unspecified error in the MySQL Server. A remote authenticated attacker can exploit the vulnerability to modify certain data on the system and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Slackware Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
Red Hat Software Collections
Percona Server for MySQL
mysql-5.5 (Debian package)
mariadb (Alpine package)
mariadb
How to mitigate CVE-2018-2562
Install updates from vednor's website.
mysql-5.5 (Debian package) - addressed in versions 5.5.59-0+deb7u1, 5.5.59-0+deb8u1
mariadb (Alpine package) - update to 10.1.32-r0
mariadb - addressed in versions 10.1.32-1.fc26, 10.2.13-1.fc27, 10.2.13-2.fc27, 10.2.13-2.fc28
mariadb (Alpine package) - update to 10.1.32-r0
mariadb - addressed in versions 10.1.32-1.fc26, 10.2.13-1.fc27, 10.2.13-2.fc27, 10.2.13-2.fc28
External References
Related Security Bulletins
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle MySQL Server
- Ubuntu update for MySQL
- Ubuntu update for MySQL
- Debian update for mysql-5.5
- Slackware Linux update for mariadb
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Percona Server for MySQL
- OpenSUSE Linux update for mysql-community-server
- SUSE Linux update for mariadb
- SUSE Linux update for mariadb
- OpenSUSE Linux update for mariadb
- Red Hat update for mysql
- Gentoo update for MySQL
- Red Hat update for mariadb
- Improper Access Control in mariadb (Alpine package)
- Fedora 27 update for mariadb
- Fedora 28 update for mariadb
- Fedora 27 update for mariadb
- Fedora 26 update for mariadb