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CVE-2008-4098

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

MySQL before 5.0.67 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 home data directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4097.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10
• Debian Linux: 5.0
• Mysql: 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5 (+13)
• MySQL Server: 5.0.23, 5.0.25, 5.0.26, 5.0.28, 5.0.30-sp1, 5.0.32 (+20)

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480292#25
• http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32167
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32578
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32759
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32769
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38517
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-897-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1662
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:094
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/09/20
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/16/3

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