CVE-2012-4452

CVE-2012-4452 describes a local privilege bypass vulnerability affecting MySQL 5.0.88 and potentially other versions. An attacker can manipulate DATA DIRECTORY or INDEX DIRECTORY arguments when creating a MyISAM table, allowing them to bypass privilege checks by pointing to future symlinked directories within the MySQL data home. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access is required for partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.