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CVE-2004-0388

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0388 describes a local file overwrite vulnerability in the mysqld_multi script within MySQL, affecting Oracle MySQL products. This low-severity flaw (CVSS 2.1) allows an unauthenticated local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack, resulting in a potential impact on data integrity (I:P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite its age, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion, with 10 mentions, primarily on GitHub.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0.33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:5.0.33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: mysql-0:3.23.58-2.3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
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gentoovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0388Low

security flaw

Apr 14, 2004

References

dev.mysql.com / doc/mysql/en/news-4-1-2.html
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/11223
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200405-20.xml
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15883
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10559
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/p-018.shtml
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-483
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
osvdb.org / 6421
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-569.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-597.html
securityfocus.com / bid/10142