CVE-2006-4227: MySQL

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 13.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MySQL before 5.0.25 and 5.1 before 5.1.12 evaluates arguments of suid routines in the security context of the routine's definer instead of the routine's caller, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges through a routine that has been made available using GRANT EXECUTE.

Affected products

• MySQL MySQL: version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4 only; version 5.0.20 only; version 5.0.22.1.0.1 only; …
• Oracle MySQL: version 5.0.0 only; version 5.1.6 only; version 5.1.9 only; version 5.1.10 only

Published 2006-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.