UBUNTU-CVE-2021-27928

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-27928

    Published: 19 Mar 2021Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-27928

    Summary:

    Details: A remote code execution issue was discovered in MariaDB 10.2 before 10.2.37, 10.3 before 10.3.28, 10.4 before 10.4.18, and 10.5 before 10.5.9; Percona Server through 2021-03-03; and the wsrep patch through 2021-03-03 for MySQL. An untrusted search path leads to eval injection, in which a database SUPER user can execute OS commands after modifying wsrep_provider and wsrep_notify_cmd. NOTE: this does not affect an Oracle product.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-27928, https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-25179, https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10237-release-notes/, https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10328-release-notes/, https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10418-release-notes/, https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-1059-release-notes/, https://mariadb.com/kb/en/security/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-27928

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: percona-server-5.6

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    5.6.22-rel71.0-0ubuntu2
    5.6.22-rel71.0-0ubuntu4
    5.6.22-rel71.0-0ubuntu4.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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