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CentOS 8 : mariadb:10.3 and mariadb-devel:10.3 (CESA-2021:1242)

high Nessus Plugin ID 148863

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2021:1242 advisory.

 - mariadb: writable system variables allows a database user with SUPER privilege to execute arbitrary code as the system mysql user (CVE-2021-27928)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1242

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 148863

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2021-1242.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/21/2021

Updated: 2/8/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-27928

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:galera, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb-backup, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb-embedded, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb-embedded-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb-errmsg, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb-gssapi-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb-oqgraph-engine, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb-server-galera, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb-server-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mariadb-test

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-27928

RHSA: 2021:1242