CVE-2017-10268 Information disclosure in MySQL Server

What is CVE-2017-10268?

CVE-2017-10268 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 19 Oct 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: Replication). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.57 and earlier, 5.6.37 and earlier and 5.7.19 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where MySQL Server executes to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all MySQL Server accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.1 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-10268?

It affects 17 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Mariadb Mariadb, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Oncommand Balance, Netapp Oncommand Insight, Netapp Oncommand Performance Manager and 11 more.

How do I fix CVE-2017-10268?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2017-10268 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10268 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2017-10268, GHSA-v298-4xpp-8q7w, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10268.