CVE-2016-6662

Public on 2016-09-20
Modified on 2017-02-22
Description
It was discovered that the MySQL logging functionality allowed writing to MySQL configuration files. An administrative database user, or a database user with FILE privileges, could possibly use this flaw to run arbitrary commands with root privileges on the system running the database server.
Severity
Important severity
Important
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.8
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
HAQM Linux 1 mysql51 2017-02-22 ALAS-2017-800 Fixed
HAQM Linux 1 mysql55 2016-10-12 ALAS-2016-756 Fixed
HAQM Linux 1 mysql56 2016-10-12 ALAS-2016-756 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
HAQM Linux CVSSv2 7.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
HAQM Linux CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H