CVE-2012-5627

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Publication date:

01/10/2013

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

Oracle MySQL and MariaDB 5.5.x before 5.5.29, 5.3.x before 5.3.12, and 5.2.x before 5.2.14 does not modify the salt during multiple executions of the change_user command within the same connection which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to conduct brute force password guessing attacks.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql::::::::	5.5.0 (including)	5.5.29 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb::::::::	5.2.0 (including)	5.2.14 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb::::::::	5.3.0 (including)	5.3.12 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb::::::::	5.5.0 (including)	5.5.29 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:10.0.0:::::::*

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CVE-2012-5627

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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