CVE-2021-27928

high-risk

Published 2021-03-19

A remote code execution issue was discovered in MariaDB 10.2 before 10.2.37, 10.3 before 10.3.28, 10.4 before 10.4.18, and 10.5 before 10.5.9; Percona Server through 2021-03-03; and the wsrep patch through 2021-03-03 for MySQL. An untrusted search path leads to eval injection, in which a database SUPER user can execute OS commands after modifying wsrep_provider and wsrep_notify_cmd. NOTE: this does not affect an Oracle product.

Do I need to act?

48.9% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — higher than 51% of all CVEs

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

1 public exploit available

49765

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.2/10 High

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (4)

Mariadb

Percona Server

Wsrep

Debian Linux

Affected Vendors

Debian Mariadb Percona Galeracluster

References (18)

Exploit http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162177/MariaDB-10.2-Command-Execution.html

Issue Tracking https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-25179

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00028.html

Release Notes https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10237-release-notes/

Release Notes https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10328-release-notes/

Release Notes https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10418-release-notes/

Release Notes https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-1059-release-notes/

Vendor Advisory https://mariadb.com/kb/en/security/

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-28