CVE-2016-6664

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6664
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6664.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6664
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-12-13T21:59:01.740Z
Modified
2025-11-26T08:33:27.666621Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

mysqld_safe in Oracle MySQL through 5.5.51, 5.6.x through 5.6.32, and 5.7.x through 5.7.14; MariaDB; Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.2, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78-1, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-8; and Percona XtraDB Cluster before 5.5.41-37.0, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-25.17, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-26.17, when using file-based logging, allows local users with access to the mysql account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on error logs and possibly other files.

References

Affected packages

Git

github.com/mysql/mysql-server

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server
Events

github.com/percona/percona-server

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/percona/percona-server
Events

github.com/percona/percona-xtradb-cluster

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/percona/percona-xtradb-cluster
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

github.com/mariadb/server

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mariadb/server
Events