Advisory Details

February 16th, 2022

MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2022-24050
CVSS SCORE	7.0, AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AFFECTED VENDORS	MariaDB
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	MariaDB
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of MariaDB. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the processing of SQL queries. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the service account.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	MariaDB has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/security/
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2022-01-20 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2022-02-16 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Anonymous

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