Man-in-the-middle attack in MySQL Server - CVE-2015-3152
Published: May 31, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13112
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-3152
CWE-ID: CWE-300
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to use of the --ssl option to mean that SSL is optional. A remote attacker can conduct man-in-the-middle attack, intercept of the communication channel between the affected app and spoof servers via a cleartext-downgrade attack, aka a "BACKRONYM" attack.
Affected software
MySQL Server
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
php (Alpine package)
openSUSE Leap
mariadb
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
php (Alpine package)
openSUSE Leap
mariadb
How to mitigate CVE-2015-3152
Update to version 5.7.3.
php (Alpine package) - update to 5.5.27-r0
mariadb - addressed in versions 10.0.20-1.fc21, 10.0.20-1.fc22
mariadb - addressed in versions 10.0.20-1.fc21, 10.0.20-1.fc22