CVE detail
CVE-2008-7247 — CVE-2008-7247
Published 2009-11-30 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor mysql · Product mysql · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0177
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
76.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
sql/sql_table.cc in MySQL 5.0.x through 5.0.88, 5.1.x through 5.1.41, and 6.0 before 6.0.9-alpha, when the data home directory contains a symlink to a different filesystem, allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by calling CREATE TABLE with a (1) DATA DIRECTORY or (2) INDEX DIRECTORY argument referring to a subdirectory that requires following this symlink.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References