Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-24051 - Use of Externally-Controlled Format String vulnerability in multiple products

CVSS 7.8 - HIGH

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

LOW

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

mariadb

fedoraproject

CWE-134

NVD

Published: 2022-02-18

Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine Format String 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 proper validation of a user-supplied string before using it as a format specifier. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the service account. Was ZDI-CAN-16193.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Mariadb Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.0 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.1 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.2 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.3 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.4 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.5 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.6 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.7 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.8 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.9 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.10 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.11 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.12 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.13 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.14 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.15 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.16 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.17 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.18 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.19 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.20 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.21 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.22 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.23 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.24 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.25 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.26 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.27 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.28 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.29 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.30 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.31 Mariadb Mariadb 10.3.32 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.0 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.1 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.2 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.3 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.4 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.5 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.6 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.7 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.8 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.9 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.10 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.11 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.12 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.13 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.14 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.15 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.16 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.17 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.18 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.19 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.20 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.21 Mariadb Mariadb 10.4.22 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.0 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.1 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.2 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.3 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.4 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.5 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.6 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.7 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.8 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.9 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.10 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.11 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.12 Mariadb Mariadb 10.5.13 Mariadb Mariadb 10.7.0 Mariadb Mariadb 10.7.1 Mariadb Mariadb 10.6.0 Mariadb Mariadb 10.6.1 Mariadb Mariadb 10.6.2 Mariadb Mariadb 10.6.3 Mariadb Mariadb 10.6.4 Mariadb Mariadb 10.6.5 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.0 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.1 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.2 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.3 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.4 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.5 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.6 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.7 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.8 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.9 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.10 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.11 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.12 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.13 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.14 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.15 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.16 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.17 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.18 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.19 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.20 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.21 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.22 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.23 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.24 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.25 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.26 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.27 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.28 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.29 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.30 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.31 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.32 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.33 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.34 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.35 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.36 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.37 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.38 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.39 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.40 Mariadb Mariadb 10.2.41 Mariadb Mariadb 10.8.0	121
OS	Fedoraproject Fedoraproject Fedora 34 Fedoraproject Fedora 35 Fedoraproject Fedora 36	3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-134 - Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Format String Injection
An attacker includes formatting characters in a string input field on the target application. Most applications assume that users will provide static text and may respond unpredictably to the presence of formatting character. For example, in certain functions of the C programming languages such as printf, the formatting character %s will print the contents of a memory location expecting this location to identify a string and the formatting character %n prints the number of DWORD written in the memory. An attacker can use this to read or write to memory locations or files, or simply to manipulate the value of the resulting text in unexpected ways. Reading or writing memory may result in program crashes and writing memory could result in the execution of arbitrary code if the attacker can write to the program stack.
String Format Overflow in syslog()
This attack targets the format string vulnerabilities in the syslog() function. An attacker would typically inject malicious input in the format string parameter of the syslog function. This is a common problem, and many public vulnerabilities and associated exploits have been posted.

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

References