CVE-2016-6664
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 3.1%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDDec 13
1st PoCNov 1
exploitation probability
3.1%top 14% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
3 public exploit(s)
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 3
cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/139491/MySQL-MariaDB-PerconaDB-Root-Privilege-Escalation.htmlunverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40679/unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40679unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Maria-Percona-RootPrivEsc-CVE-2016-6664-5617-Exploit.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139491/MySQL-MariaDB-PerconaDB-Root-Privilege-Escalation.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2130.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2749.htmlhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2192https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0279https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0574http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Nov/4https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-18https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40679/https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/11/02/percona-responds-to-cve-2016-6663-and-cve-2016-6664/http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3770