Security restrictions bypass - CVE-2018-2762

 

Security restrictions bypass - CVE-2018-2762

Published: April 20, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12013
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-2762
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL due to improper security restrictions. A local attacker can cause the service to crash.

Affected software


Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition
community-mysql

How to mitigate CVE-2018-2762

Install update from vendor's website.

community-mysql - addressed in versions 5.7.22-1.fc26, 5.7.22-1.fc27, 5.7.22-1.fc28

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