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CVE-2005-0709

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0709 describes a critical vulnerability in MySQL versions 4.0.23 and earlier, and 4.1.x up to 4.1.10. Authenticated users with INSERT and DELETE privileges can execute arbitrary code by leveraging the CREATE FUNCTION statement to call libc functions like strcat, on_exit, and exit. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 4.6, indicating a medium severity, and allows for local privilege escalation with partial impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:4.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:4.1.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.23.49CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:3.23.49:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
18.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-25209 · Mar 11, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1844 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 3,049 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (4)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Desktop version 3 Extras
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: mysql-0:3.23.58-15.RHEL3.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: mysql-0:4.1.10a-1.RHEL4.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0709Important

security flaw

Mar 11, 2005

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2005-q1/0084.html
Exploit
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
marc.info
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10479
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
usn.ubuntu.com / 96-1
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-707
Patch
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-19.xml
Patch
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_19_mysql.html
Patch
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-334.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-348.html
securityfocus.com / bid/12781
ExploitPatch
trustix.org / errata/2005/0009
Patch