CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8288

Improper Access Control

Published: Oct 25, 2016 | Modified: Mar 07, 2019
CVSS 3.x
3.1
LOW
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
2.1 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
3.1 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.6.30 and earlier and 5.7.12 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity via vectors related to Server: InnoDB Plugin.

Weakness

The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mysql Oracle 5.6.0 (including) 5.6.30 (including)
Mysql Oracle 5.7.0 (including) 5.7.12 (including)
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.32-1.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS RedHat rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.32-1.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS RedHat rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.32-1.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.32-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUS RedHat rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.32-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUS RedHat rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.32-1.el7 *
Mysql-5.6 Ubuntu upstream *
Mysql-5.7 Ubuntu upstream *
Percona-server-5.6 Ubuntu artful *
Percona-server-5.6 Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Percona-server-5.6 Ubuntu xenial *
Percona-server-5.6 Ubuntu yakkety *
Percona-server-5.6 Ubuntu zesty *
Percona-xtradb-cluster-5.5 Ubuntu trusty *
Percona-xtradb-cluster-5.6 Ubuntu xenial *
Percona-xtradb-cluster-5.6 Ubuntu yakkety *

Extended Description

Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:

When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses:

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

References