CVE-2008-4098
MySQL before 5.0.67 allows local users to bypass certain privilege checks by calling CREATE TABLE on a MyISAM table with modified (1) DATA DIRECTORY or (2) INDEX DIRECTORY arguments that are originally associated with pathnames without symlinks, and that can point to tables created at a future time at which a pathname is modified to contain a symlink to a subdirectory of the MySQL home data directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4097.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 1.6% (76th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4082)
- Published
- September 18, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4082 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- mysql / mysql
- oracle / mysql
- oracle / mysql
- oracle / mysql
- oracle / mysql
- oracle / mysql
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References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480292#25(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32167(Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32578(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32759(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32769(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38517(Not Applicable)
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-897-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1662(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:094(Broken Link)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/09/20(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/16/3(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0110.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1397-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-671-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45649
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10591
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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