CVE-2012-5627
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.0EPSS 11.4%EU EUVD
Oracle MySQL and MariaDB 5.5.x before 5.5.29, 5.3.x before 5.3.12, and 5.2.x before 5.2.14 does not modify the salt during multiple executions of the change_user command within the same connection which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to conduct brute force password guessing attacks.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-522
- EPSS score
- 11.4% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-5512)
- Published
- October 1, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-5512 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mariadb / mariadb
- mariadb / mariadb
- oracle / mysql
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/58(Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/83(Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/424(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53372(Not Applicable)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml(Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:102(Broken Link)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883719(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3915(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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