Vulnerability Details CVE-2008-4098
MySQL before 5.0.67 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 home data directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4097.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 51.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.6
Products affected by CVE-2008-4098
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.10
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.15
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.16
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.17
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.20
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.24
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.30
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.36
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.44
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.54
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.56
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.60
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cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.66
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.23
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.25
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.26
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.28
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.30
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.32
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.34
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.36
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.38
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.40
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.41
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.42
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.44
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.45
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.46
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.48
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.50
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.51
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.52
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.56
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.58
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.60
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.62
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.64
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cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.66
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:5.0