National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2691
Original release date:05/16/2007
Last revised:04/08/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
MySQL before 4.1.23, 5.0.x before 5.0.42, and 5.1.x before 5.1.18 does not require the DROP privilege for RENAME TABLE statements, which allows remote authenticated users to rename arbitrary tables.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
6.8
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
Solution
The vendor has released a product update to address this issue:
Upgrade to MySQL version 5.1.18: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
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- Official Statement from Red Hat (05/29/2007)
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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-2007-2691
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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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1804
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-18.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018069
External Source: BID
Name: 31681
External Source: BID
Name: 24016
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0768
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0364
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2780
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32222
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31226
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30351
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25301
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2008-10-09
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=27515
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1536
External Source: XF
Name: mysql-renametable-weak-security(34347)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-528-1
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070717 rPSA-2007-0143-1 mysql mysql-bench mysql-server
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0894
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:139
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1413
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28838
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27823
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27155
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26430
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26073
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25946
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:003
External Source: MLIST
Name: [announce] 20070712 MySQL Community Server 5.0.45 has been released!