CVE-2007-5970

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

MySQL 5.1.x before 5.1.23 and 6.0.x before 6.0.4 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges on arbitrary tables via unspecified vectors involving use of table-level DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options when creating a partitioned table with the same name as a table on which the user lacks privileges.

Affected products

MySQL Server: 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.10, 5.1.11, 5.1.12, 5.1.13 (+9)

References

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32091
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-23.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/news-6-0-4.html
http://osvdb.org/42607
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019084
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0560/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38988
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32091
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-23.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/news-6-0-4.html
http://osvdb.org/42607
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019084

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