CVE-2005-2573: MySQL

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The mysql_create_function function in sql_udf.cc for MySQL 4.0 before 4.0.25, 4.1 before 4.1.13, and 5.0 before 5.0.7-beta, when running on Windows, uses an incomplete blacklist in a directory traversal check, which allows attackers to include arbitrary files via the backslash (\) character.

Affected products

• MySQL MySQL: version 4.1.0 only; version 4.1.3 only; version 4.1.10 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; …
• Oracle MySQL: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.0.5 only; …

Published 2005-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.