The version of MariaDB installed on the remote host is prior to 5.5.61. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mariadb-5561-release-notes advisory.

  - Vulnerability in the MySQL Client component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Client programs). Supported     versions that are affected are 5.5.60 and prior, 5.6.40 and prior, 5.7.22 and prior and 8.0.11 and prior.
    Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple     protocols to compromise MySQL Client. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized     ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Client as well as     unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Client accessible data. (CVE-2018-3081)

  - Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: MyISAM). Supported versions     that are affected are 5.5.60 and prior, 5.6.40 and prior and 5.7.22 and prior. Easily exploitable     vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise     MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete     access to some of MySQL Server accessible data. (CVE-2018-3058)

  - Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: Security: Privileges).
    Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.60 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high     privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful     attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable     crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. (CVE-2018-3063)

  - Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: Options). Supported     versions that are affected are 5.5.60 and prior, 5.6.40 and prior and 5.7.22 and prior. Difficult to     exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to     compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update,     insert or delete access to some of MySQL Server accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a     subset of MySQL Server accessible data. (CVE-2018-3066)

  - Vulnerability in the MySQL Client product of Oracle MySQL (component: C API). Supported versions that are     affected are 5.6.48 and prior, 5.7.30 and prior and 8.0.20 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability     allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Client.
    Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently     repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Client. (CVE-2020-14550)

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

Detections

Analytics

MariaDB 5.5.0 < 5.5.61 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167884

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Version 1.4 Jul 2, 2025, 3:00 AM Plugin metadata CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202507020300
Version 1.3 Dec 5, 2022, 10:02 PM Reference Plugin Feed: 202212052202
Version 1.2 Nov 18, 2022, 5:52 PM New Plugin Feed: 202211181752