6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
9 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.021 Low
EPSS
Percentile
88.9%
MySQL is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2005 StrongHoldNet
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:mysql:mysql";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.11378");
script_version("2023-08-01T13:29:10+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2003-0150");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-08-01 13:29:10 +0000 (Tue, 01 Aug 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_name("MySQL < 3.23.56 'mysqld' Privilege Escalation Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2005 StrongHoldNet");
script_family("Databases");
script_dependencies("find_service.nasl", "mysql_version.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/mysql", 3306);
script_mandatory_keys("MySQL/installed");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7052");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"MySQL is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by creating a
DATADIR/my.cnf that includes the line 'user=root' under the '[mysqld]' option section.
When the mysqld service is executed, it will run as the root user instead of the default user.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.23.56 or later.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(!port = get_app_port(cpe:CPE))
exit(0);
if(!ver = get_app_version(cpe:CPE, port:port))
exit(0);
if(ereg(pattern:"3\.(([0-9]\..*)|(1[0-9]\..*)|(2(([0-2]\..*)|3\.(([0-9]$)|([0-4][0-9])|(5[0-5])))))",
string:ver)) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:ver, fixed_version:"3.23.56");
security_message(port:port, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);