CVE-2022-24050: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of MariaDB. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the processing of SQL queries. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the service account. Was ZDI-CAN-16207.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 34 only; version 35 only; version 36 only
• MariaDB MariaDB: from 10.2.0, before 10.2.42 (fixed in 10.2.42); from 10.3.0, before 10.3.33 (fixed in 10.3.33); from 10.4.0, before 10.4.23 (fixed in 10.4.23); from 10.5.0, before 10.5.14 (fixed in 10.5.14); from 10.6.0, before 10.6.6 (fixed in 10.6.6); from 10.7.0, before 10.7.2 (fixed in 10.7.2); …

Published 2022-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.