RHEL 8 : mariadb:10.3 and mariadb-devel:10.3 (RHSA-2021:1242)

high Nessus Plugin ID 148768

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for mariadb:10.3 / mariadb-devel:10.3.

Description

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

MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that is binary compatible with MySQL.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: mariadb (10.3.28), galera (25.3.32).

Security Fix(es):

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

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 RHEL mariadb:10.3 / mariadb-devel:10.3 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:1242.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 148768

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1242.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/19/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-backup, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-embedded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-server-galera, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-oqgraph-engine, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-server-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:judy-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-errmsg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-server, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-gssapi-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:asio-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:judy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:galera, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-embedded-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:asio

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/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

CWE: 78

RHSA: 2021:1242

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