CVE-2009-5026

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-08-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

The executable comment feature in MySQL 5.0.x before 5.0.93 and 5.1.x before 5.1.50, when running in certain slave configurations in which the slave is running a newer version than the master, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via custom comments.

Affected products

Mysql: 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5 (+15)
MySQL Server: 5.0.23, 5.0.41, 5.0.45, 5.0.51, 5.0.67, 5.0.75 (+58)

References

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=49124
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-93.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-50.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00007.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/101
http://secunia.com/advisories/49179
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640177
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=49124
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-93.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-50.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00007.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/101

Get alerted when CVE-2009-5026 or the next vulnerability affects your stack