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CVE-2012-4452

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-10-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

MySQL 5.0.88, and possibly other versions and platforms, 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 data home directory, related to incorrect calculation of the mysql_unpacked_real_data_home value. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-4030 regression, which was not omitted in other packages and versions such as MySQL 5.0.95 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Affected products

• MySQL Server: through 5.0.88

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0121.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55715
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860808
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0121.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55715
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860808

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