CWE Code: 264
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 2.1
CWE Name:  Permissions Privileges and Access Controls
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): NONE/PARTIAL/NONE
Published Date: 2012-10-09
Last Modified Date: 2013-01-15