CVE-2024-21508

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-94 Code Injection

Publication date:

11/04/2024

Last modified:

15/04/2026

Description

Versions of the package mysql2 before 3.9.4 are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the readCodeFor function due to improper validation of the supportBigNumbers and bigNumberStrings values.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.80

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://blog.slonser.info/posts/mysql2-attacker-configuration/
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/blob/1609b5393516d72a4ae47196837317fbe75e0c13/lib/parsers/text_parser.js%23L14C10-L14C21
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/commit/74abf9ef94d76114d9a09415e28b496522a94805
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/pull/2572
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/releases/tag/v3.9.4
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MYSQL2-6591085
https://blog.slonser.info/posts/mysql2-attacker-configuration/
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/blob/1609b5393516d72a4ae47196837317fbe75e0c13/lib/parsers/text_parser.js%23L14C10-L14C21
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/commit/74abf9ef94d76114d9a09415e28b496522a94805
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/pull/2572
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/releases/tag/v3.9.4
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MYSQL2-6591085