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CVE-2008-2079

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-05-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

MySQL 4.1.x before 4.1.24, 5.0.x before 5.0.60, 5.1.x before 5.1.24, and 6.0.x before 6.0.5 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 within the MySQL home data directory, which can point to tables that are created in the future.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 7.10, 8.04
• Debian Linux: 4.0
• Mysql: from 4.1.0 before 4.1.24; from 5.0.0 before 5.0.60; from 5.1.0 before 5.1.24 — fixed in 4.1.24, 5.0.60, 5.1.24
• MySQL Server: from 6.0.0 before 6.0.5 — fixed in 6.0.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mysql 4.1.24, 5.0.60, 5.1.24; MySQL Server 6.0.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32167
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-4-1-24.html
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-60.html
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-24.html
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/news-6-0-5.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30134
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31066
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31226
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31687

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