CVE-2008-7247: MySQL

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sql/sql_table.cc in MySQL 5.0.x through 5.0.88, 5.1.x through 5.1.41, and 6.0 before 6.0.9-alpha, when the data home directory contains a symlink to a different filesystem, allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by calling CREATE TABLE with a (1) DATA DIRECTORY or (2) INDEX DIRECTORY argument referring to a subdirectory that requires following this symlink.

Affected products

• MySQL MySQL: version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4 only; version 5.0.5 only; …
• Oracle MySQL: version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.6 only; version 5.0.7 only; version 5.0.8 only; version 5.0.11 only; …

Published 2009-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.