CVE-2022-24050

high

Description

MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of MariaDB. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the processing of SQL queries. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the service account. Was ZDI-CAN-16207.

References

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-364/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220318-0004/

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/security/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NJ4KDAGF3H4D4BDTHRAM6ZEAJJWWMRUO/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZFZVMJL5UDTOZMARLXQIMG3BTG6UNYW/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKJRBYJAQCOPHSED43A3HUPNKQLDTFGD/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-02-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High