Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-3523 - Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Connector/J 5.1.40

047910
CVSS 8.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
high complexity
oracle
nessus

Summary

Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Connector/J). Supported versions that are affected are 5.1.40 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors. While the vulnerability is in MySQL Connectors, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of MySQL Connectors. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.5 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Oracle
1

Nessus

  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-945.NASL
    descriptionSeveral issues were discovered in mysql-connector-java that allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Connectors accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of the data. For Debian 7
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2017-05-17
    plugin id100227
    published2017-05-17
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100227
    titleDebian DLA-945-1 : mysql-connector-java security update
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-945-1. The text
    # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(100227);
      script_version("3.6");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2017-3523", "CVE-2017-3586", "CVE-2017-3589");
    
      script_name(english:"Debian DLA-945-1 : mysql-connector-java security update");
      script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Several issues were discovered in mysql-connector-java that allow
    attackers to execute arbitrary code, insert or delete access to some
    of MySQL Connectors accessible data as well as unauthorized read
    access to a subset of the data.
    
    For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
    5.1.42-1~deb7u1.
    
    We recommend that you upgrade your mysql-connector-java packages.
    
    NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
    block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
    to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
    introducing additional issues."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/05/msg00016.html"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/mysql-connector-java"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Upgrade the affected libmysql-java package."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmysql-java");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/05/16");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/05/17");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("debian_package.inc");
    
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libmysql-java", reference:"5.1.42-1~deb7u1")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
    
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2018-248.NASL
    descriptionThis update for mysql-connector-java to version to 5.1.42 fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-3589: An unspecified vulnerability in MySQL Connector/J could have resulted in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Connectors accessible data (bnc#1035210) - CVE-2017-3523: An unspecified vulnerability in MySQL Connector/J could have lead to takeover of MySQL Connectors (bnc#1035697) - CVE-2017-3586: An unspecified vulnerability in MySQL Connectors could have lead to unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Connectors accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Connectors accessible data (bnc#1035211) More infos are available at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/en/news-5-1.html This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2018-03-13
    plugin id108270
    published2018-03-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/108270
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : mysql-connector-java (openSUSE-2018-248)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3840.NASL
    descriptionThijs Alkemade discovered that unexpected automatic deserialisation of Java objects in the MySQL Connector/J JDBC driver may result in the execution of arbitary code. For additional details, please refer to the advisory at https://www.computest.nl/advisories/CT-2017-0425_MySQL-Connector-J.txt
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id99954
    published2017-05-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/99954
    titleDebian DSA-3840-1 : mysql-connector-java - security update