{"id":"CVE-2012-4452","published":"2012-10-09T23:00:00Z","modified":"2024-08-06T20:35:09Z","title":"MySQL 5.0.88, and possibly other versions and platforms, allows local users to bypass certain privilege checks by…","vendor":null,"product":null,"tier":"tail","description":{"text":"MySQL 5.0.88, and possibly other versions and platforms, allows local users to bypass certain privilege checks by calling CREATE TABLE on a MyISAM table with modified (1) DATA DIRECTORY or (2) INDEX DIRECTORY arguments that are originally associated with pathnames without symlinks, and that can point to tables created at a future time at which a pathname is modified to contain a symlink to a subdirectory of the MySQL data home directory, related to incorrect calculation of the mysql_unpacked_real_data_home value.  NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-4030 regression, which was not omitted in other packages and versions such as MySQL 5.0.95 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.","provenance":"source","from":"CVE.org"},"cvss":null,"epss":{"score":0.00398,"percentile":0.33912,"provenance":"source"},"cwes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55715","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID"]},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860808","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0121.html","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT"]},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/1","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST"]}],"priority":{"score":6.8,"factors":[{"name":"EPSS percentile","points":6.78}]},"euvd":{"id":"EUVD-2012-4383","exploited":false,"provenance":"source"},"lineage":{"familyId":"fam-cve-2008-2079-family-cve-2008-2079","parents":[{"from":"CVE-2009-4030","to":"CVE-2012-4452","relation":"regression","confidence":"high","kind":"lineage","evidence":[{"kind":"text","provenance":"source","relation":"regression","quote":"NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-4030 regression, which was not omitted in other packages and versions such as MySQL 5.0.95 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.","from":"CVE.org","in":"CVE-2012-4452"}]}]}}