Information disclosure in ClickHouse - CVE-2018-14669
Published: August 15, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30819
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14669
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
ClickHouse MySQL client before versions 1.1.54390 had "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE" functionality enabled that allowed a malicious MySQL database read arbitrary files from the connected ClickHouse server.
Affected software
ClickHouse
How to mitigate CVE-2018-14669
Install update from vendor's website.
ClickHouse - update to 1.1.54390