VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2009-5026

medium
Published 2012-08-17 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

The executable comment feature in MySQL 5.0.x before 5.0.93 and 5.1.x before 5.1.50, when running in certain slave configurations in which the slave is running a newer version than the master, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via custom comments.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-34796 remote multiple verified
Libing Song · 2010-08-03

Oracle MySQL < 5.1.50 - Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
oracle oraclemysql5.0.85
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.0
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.1
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.2
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.3
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.4
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.5
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.10
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.15
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.16
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.17
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.20
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.24
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.45
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.82
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.84
mysql mysqlmysql5.0.87
oracle oraclemysql5.0.23
oracle oraclemysql5.0.41
oracle oraclemysql5.0.45
oracle oraclemysql5.0.51
oracle oraclemysql5.0.67
oracle oraclemysql5.0.75
oracle oraclemysql5.0.77
oracle oraclemysql5.0.81
oracle oraclemysql5.0.83
oracle oraclemysql5.0.86
oracle oraclemysql5.0.88
oracle oraclemysql5.0.89
oracle oraclemysql5.0.90
oracle oraclemysql5.0.91
oracle oraclemysql5.0.92
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.23
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.31
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.32
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.34
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.37
oracle oraclemysql5.1
oracle oraclemysql5.1.1
oracle oraclemysql5.1.2
oracle oraclemysql5.1.3
oracle oraclemysql5.1.4
oracle oraclemysql5.1.10
oracle oraclemysql5.1.11
oracle oraclemysql5.1.12
oracle oraclemysql5.1.13
oracle oraclemysql5.1.14
oracle oraclemysql5.1.15
oracle oraclemysql5.1.16
oracle oraclemysql5.1.17
oracle oraclemysql5.1.18
oracle oraclemysql5.1.19
oracle oraclemysql5.1.20
oracle oraclemysql5.1.21
oracle oraclemysql5.1.22
oracle oraclemysql5.1.23
oracle oraclemysql5.1.24
oracle oraclemysql5.1.25
oracle oraclemysql5.1.26
oracle oraclemysql5.1.27
oracle oraclemysql5.1.28
oracle oraclemysql5.1.29
oracle oraclemysql5.1.30
oracle oraclemysql5.1.31
oracle oraclemysql5.1.33
oracle oraclemysql5.1.34
oracle oraclemysql5.1.35
oracle oraclemysql5.1.36
oracle oraclemysql5.1.37
oracle oraclemysql5.1.38
oracle oraclemysql5.1.39
oracle oraclemysql5.1.40
oracle oraclemysql5.1.41
oracle oraclemysql5.1.42
oracle oraclemysql5.1.43
oracle oraclemysql5.1.44
oracle oraclemysql5.1.45
oracle oraclemysql5.1.46
oracle oraclemysql5.1.47
oracle oraclemysql5.1.48
oracle oraclemysql5.1.49

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.