CVE-2022-24051

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Feb 18, 2022
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jan 27, 2022

Description

MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine Format String 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 proper validation of a user-supplied string before using it as a format specifier. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the service account. Was ZDI-CAN-16193.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	7.0 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	zdi

Weaknesses

CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Affected Products

Product	Versions
MariaDBMariaDB	10.6.5Affected

References

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/security/
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-318/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220318-0004/
FEDORA-2022-263f7cc483vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2022-03350936eevendor-advisory
FEDORA-2022-5cfe372ab7vendor-advisory

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