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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4456

Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the command-line client in MySQL 5.0.26 through 5.0.45, and other versions including versions later than 5.0.45, when the --html option is enabled, allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by placing it in a database cell, which might be accessed by this client when composing an HTML document. NOTE: as of 20081031, the issue has not been fixed in MySQL 5.0.67.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (04/20/2009)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-4456 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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Vulnerable software and versions

Configuration 1

OR

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.26

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.27

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.30

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.30:sp1

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.32

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.33

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.36

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.37

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.38

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.4

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.41

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.42

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.44

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.45

* Denotes Vulnerable Software

* Changes related to vulnerability configurations