CVE-2010-1848

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in MySQL 5.0 through 5.0.91 and 5.1 before 5.1.47 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended table grants to read field definitions of arbitrary tables, and on 5.1 to read or delete content of arbitrary tables, via a .. (dot dot) in a table name.

Affected products

Mysql: 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5 (+17)
MySQL Server: 5.0.0-alpha, 5.0.3-beta, 5.0.6, 5.0.7, 5.0.8, 5.0.9 (+56)

References

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=53371
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-91.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-47.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
http://lists.mysql.com/commits/107532
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00005.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024031
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:107
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0442.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0824.html

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