CVE-2012-5627 (GCVE-0-2012-5627)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-10-01 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Oracle MySQL and MariaDB 5.5.x before 5.5.29, 5.3.x before 5.3.12, and 5.2.x before 5.2.14 does not modify the salt during multiple executions of the change_user command within the same connection which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to conduct brute force password guessing attacks.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/58 | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883719 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/83 | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC |
| http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/424 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/53372 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3915 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2012-12-03 00:00
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"cve": "CVE-2012-5627",
"id": "CVE-2012-5627",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:43:30Z",
"product_status:recommended": "219",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2012-5627",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2012-5627.json",
"version": "20"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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