4.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2005-0004

Published: 14/04/2005 Updated: 05/08/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 409
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The mysqlaccess script in MySQL 4.0.23 and previous versions, 4.1.x prior to 4.1.10, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.3, and other versions including 3.x, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files or read temporary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

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Vendor Advisories

Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a noticed that the “mysqlaccess” program created temporary files in an insecure manner This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program ...
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a temporary file vulnerability in the mysqlaccess script of MySQL that could allow an unprivileged user to let root overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack and could also could unveil the contents of a temporary file which might contain sensitive information F ...