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ALPINE-CVE-2016-6662
ALPINE-CVE-2016-6662
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL
Oracle MySQL through 5.5.52, 5.6.x through 5.6.33, and 5.7.x through 5.7.15; MariaDB before 5.5.51, 10.0.x before 10.0.27, and 10.1.x before 10.1.17; and Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.1, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78.0, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-7 allow local users to create arbitrary configurations and bypass certain protection mechanisms by setting general_log_file to a my.cnf configuration. NOTE: this can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by setting malloc_lib. NOTE: the affected MySQL version information is from Oracle's October 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that the issue was silently patched in MySQL 5.5.52, 5.6.33, and 5.7.15.
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.0
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.3 | mariadb | 10.0.21-r0, 10.0.21-r1, 10.0.21-r2 |
| Alpine:v3.2 | mariadb | 0, 5.5.41-r0, 5.5.41-r2 |
Exploit Intelligence
- MySQL server CVE-2016-6662 patch playbook (github-poc-repo)
- research CVE-2016-6662 (github-poc-repo)
- Simple ansible playbook to patch mysql servers against CVE-2016-6662 (github-poc-repo)
- 0ldSQL_MySQL_RCE_exploit.py (ver. 1.0) (CVE-2016-6662) MySQL Remote Root Code Execution / Privesc PoC Exploit For testing purposes only. Do no harm. (github-poc-repo)
- boompig/cve-2016-6662 (github-poc-repo)
- From SQL injection to root shell with CVE-2016-6662 by MaYaSeVeN (github-poc-repo)
- cve_version_check.go (github-poc)
- nuclei_routing.go (github-poc)
Timeline
- Sep 20, 2016 CVE Published
- Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
- Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch