CVE-2007-5970: Oracle MySQL

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MySQL 5.1.x before 5.1.23 and 6.0.x before 6.0.4 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges on arbitrary tables via unspecified vectors involving use of table-level DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options when creating a partitioned table with the same name as a table on which the user lacks privileges.

Affected products

• Oracle MySQL: version 5.1.1 only; version 5.1.2 only; version 5.1.10 only; version 5.1.11 only; version 5.1.12 only; version 5.1.13 only; …

Published 2007-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.