CVE-2018-2813 Information disclosure in MySQL Server

What is CVE-2018-2813?

CVE-2018-2813 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 19 Apr 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: DDL). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.59 and prior, 5.6.39 and prior and 5.7.21 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 read access to a subset of MySQL Server accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.3 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-2813?

It affects 16 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mariadb Mariadb, Netapp Oncommand Insight, Netapp Oncommand Unified Manager, Netapp Oncommand Workflow Automation and 10 more.

How do I fix CVE-2018-2813?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2018-2813 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-2813 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2018-2813, GHSA-9v4g-rvq8-4rmh, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-2813.