CVE-2008-4456

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-4456
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-10-06 23:25:50 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionCross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the command-line client in MySQL 5.0.26 through 5.0.45, and other versions including versions later than 5.0.45, when the --html option is enabled, allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by placing it in a database cell, which might be accessed by this client when composing an HTML document. NOTE: as of 20081031, the issue has not been fixed in MySQL 5.0.67.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.6 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-79 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mysql Mysql 5.0.30 All All All
Application Mysql Mysql 5.0.36 All All All
Application Mysql Mysql 5.0.4 All All All
Application Mysql Mysql 5.0.44 All All All
Application Oracle Mysql 5.0.26 All All All
Application Oracle Mysql 5.0.27 All All All
Application Oracle Mysql 5.0.30 sp1 All All
Application Oracle Mysql 5.0.32 All All All
Application Oracle Mysql 5.0.33 All All All
Application Oracle Mysql 5.0.37 All All All
Application Oracle Mysql 5.0.38 All All All
Application Oracle Mysql 5.0.41 All All All
Application Oracle Mysql 5.0.42 All All All
Application Oracle Mysql 5.0.45 All All All
Application Oracle Mysql 5.0.67 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
USN-897-1: MySQL vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ubuntu.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
MySQL command-line client HTML injection vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.henlich.de
MySQL HTML Output Script Insertion Security Issue - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
MySQL Bugs: #27884: mysql --html does not quote HTML special characters in output af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.mysql.com Exploit
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1783-1 mysql-dfsg-5.0 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Red Hat update for mysql - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Debian update for mysql-dfsg - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
APPLE-SA-2010-03-29-1 Security Update 2010-002 / Mac OS X v10.6.3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com
MySQL command-line client HTML injection vulnerability - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:094 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
About the security content of Security Update 2010-002 / Mac OS X v10.6.3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
Ubuntu update for mysql-dfsg-5 and mysql-dfsg-5.1 - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
USN-1397-1: MySQL vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
MySQL Command Line Client HTML Special Characters HTML Injection Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Bugtraq: RE: RE: MySQL command-line client HTML injection vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2010-02-17Tomas HogerRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-4456 This issue was addressed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 by https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1289.html and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 by https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0110.html . The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, future MySQL package updates may address this flaw for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, and Red Hat Application Stack 2.

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