Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-5969

Title: Mysql Community Server Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-5969.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Dec 10, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

14.26%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-5969: MySQL Community Server 5.0.x before 5.0.51, Enterprise Server 5.0.x before 5.0.52, Server 5.1.x before 5.1.23, and Server 6.0.x before 6.0.4, when a table relies on symlinks created through explicit DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite system table information and gain privileges via a RENAME TABLE statement that changes the symlink to point to an existing file.

Impacted Vendors

communityserver.org 1

mysql 3

oracle 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.mysql.com/32111 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-4-1-24.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-cs-5-0-51.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-52.html http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?3%2C186931%2C186931 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html http://lists.mysql.com/announce/495 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27981 http://secunia.com/advisories/28025 http://secunia.com/advisories/28040 http://secunia.com/advisories/28063 http://secunia.com/advisories/28099 http://secunia.com/advisories/28108 http://secunia.com/advisories/28128 http://secunia.com/advisories/28343 http://secunia.com/advisories/28559 http://secunia.com/advisories/28838 http://secunia.com/advisories/29706 http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-04.xml http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.428959 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1451 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:243 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1155.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1157.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486477/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26765 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019060 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4142 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4198 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0560/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1000/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1999 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10509 https://usn.ubuntu.com/559-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00467.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00475.html http://bugs.mysql.com/32111 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-4-1-24.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-cs-5-0-51.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-52.html http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?3%2C186931%2C186931 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html http://lists.mysql.com/announce/495 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27981 http://secunia.com/advisories/28025 http://secunia.com/advisories/28040 http://secunia.com/advisories/28063 http://secunia.com/advisories/28099 http://secunia.com/advisories/28108 http://secunia.com/advisories/28128 http://secunia.com/advisories/28343 http://secunia.com/advisories/28559 http://secunia.com/advisories/28838 http://secunia.com/advisories/29706 http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-04.xml http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.428959 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1451 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:243 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1155.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1157.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486477/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26765 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019060 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4142 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4198 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0560/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1000/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1999 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10509 https://usn.ubuntu.com/559-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00467.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00475.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-5969 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 10, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.