CVE-2022-24050 — Use After Free in Mariadb

CWE-416 — Use After FreeCWE-1173 — Improper Use of Validation Framework7 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 78.53%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
MariadbDebian Mariadb-10.5Fedoraproject Fedora+2 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 18
Latest updateFeb 28

Description

MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of MariaDB. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the processing of SQL queries. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and exec…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶NVDmariadb/mariadb10.2.0 — 10.2.42+6
▶debiandebian/mariadb-10.5< mariadb-10.5 1:10.5.15-0+deb11u1 (bullseye)
▶CVEListV5mariadb/mariadb10.6.5

Also affects: Fedora 34, 35, 36

Patches

Patch: mariadb.com ↗Patch: mariadb.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-x653-r3p3-jh2f: This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of MariaDB↗2022-02-19
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OSV
CVE-2022-24050: MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation Vulnerability↗2022-02-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
MariaDB vulnerabilities↗2022-02-28
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Red Hat
mariadb: lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object↗2022-02-18
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Microsoft
MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of MariaDB. Authentication ↗2022-02-08
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Debian
CVE-2022-24050: mariadb-10.5 - MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation Vulnerability...↗2022
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