National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4456
Original release date:10/06/2008
Last revised:08/19/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
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):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
- Official Statement from Red Hat (04/20/2009)
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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-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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External Source: XF
Name: mysql-commandline-xss(45590)
External Source: BID
Name: 31486
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081029 Re: MySQL command-line client HTML injection vulnerability
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081008 Re: MySQL command-line client HTML injection vulnerability
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080930 RE: MySQL command-line client HTML injection vulnerability
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080930 MySQL command-line client HTML injection vulnerability
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:094
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.henlich.de/it-security/mysql-command-line-client-html-injection-vulnerability
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1783
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4357
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34907
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32072
Type: Advisory
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081004 RE: RE: MySQL command-line client HTML injection vulnerability
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=27884