CVE-2026-44172: MariaDB

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. In versions 3.3.18 and 3.4.8, an application that was taking non-validated user input, escaping it with mysql_real_escape_string() and sending it to the database using text protocol and big5 character set was vulnerable to SQL injections, even though mysql_real_escape_string() was supposed to prevent them. This issue has been patched in versions 3.3.19 and 3.4.9.

Affected products

  • MariaDB MariaDB: version 3.3.18 only; version 3.4.8 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 10.0 only

Published 2026-06-12. Last modified 2026-09-17.