CVE-2008-4097
MySQL 5.0.51a allows local users to bypass certain privilege checks by calling CREATE TABLE on a MyISAM table with modified (1) DATA…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
MySQL 5.0.51a 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 associated with symlinks within pathnames for subdirectories of the MySQL home data directory, which are followed when tables are created in the future. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 21% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- MDVSA-2009:094 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- USN-671-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 32769 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080909 Re: CVE request: MySQL incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- mysql-myisam-symlinks-security-bypass(45648) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080916 Re: CVE request: MySQL incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 32759 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:025 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480292#25 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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