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CVE-2015-5969

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v3.0)
• 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: 2016-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The mysql-systemd-helper script in the mysql-community-server package before 5.6.28-2.17.1 in openSUSE 13.2 and before 5.6.28-13.1 in openSUSE Leap 42.1 and the mariadb package before 10.0.22-2.21.2 in openSUSE 13.2 and before 10.0.22-3.1 in SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 12.1 and openSUSE Leap 42.1 allows local users to discover database credentials by listing a process and its arguments.

Affected products

• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.2
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12-sp1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00039.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00050.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/957174
• https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20160296-1.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00039.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00050.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/957174
• https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20160296-1.html

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