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CVE-2016-6663
Race condition in Oracle MySQL before 5.5.52, 5.6.x before 5.6.33, 5.7.x before 5.7.15, and 8.x before 8.0.1; MariaDB before 5.5.52,…
High7.0EPSS 4.3%
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- mitre
Description
Race condition in Oracle MySQL before 5.5.52, 5.6.x before 5.6.33, 5.7.x before 5.7.15, and 8.x before 8.0.1; MariaDB before 5.5.52, 10.0.x before 10.0.28, and 10.1.x before 10.1.18; Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.2, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78-1, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-8; and Percona XtraDB Cluster before 5.5.41-37.0, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-25.17, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-26.17 allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges by leveraging use of my_copystat by REPAIR TABLE to repair a MyISAM table.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.3% · top 8.8% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (24)
- RHSA-2016:2749 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-52.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0184 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20161101 MySQL / MariaDB / PerconaDB - Privilege Escalation / Race Condition Exploit [CVE-2016-6663 / OCVE-2016-5616] (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2131 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/4e5473862e6852b0f3802b0cd0c6fa10b5253291 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-5552-release-notes/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/11/02/percona-responds-to-cve-2016-6663-and-cve-2016-6664/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 40678 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2130 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2927 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161025 Re: CVE-2016-6662 - MySQL Remote Root Code Execution / Privilege Escalation ( 0day ) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-33.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 92911 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 93614 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2595 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-1.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10118-release-notes/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-15.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/347eeefbfc658c8531878218487d729f4e020805 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2928 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10028-release-notes/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Maria-Percona-PrivEscRace-CVE-2016-6663-5616-Exploit.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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