CVE-2016-6663
Race condition in Oracle MySQL before 5.5.52, 5.6.x before 5.6.33, 5.7.x before 5.7.15, and 8.x before 8.0.1; MariaDB before 5.5.52, 10.0.x before 10.0.28, and 10.1.x before 10.1.18; Percona Server
02 Description
Race condition in Oracle MySQL before 5.5.52, 5.6.x before 5.6.33, 5.7.x before 5.7.15, and 8.x before 8.0.1; MariaDB before 5.5.52, 10.0.x before 10.0.28, and 10.1.x before 10.1.18; Percona Server
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.31% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 90.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-12-13 21:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 01:36Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-08-10
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 85b8ff7cdf755e5cec74067b1deccdadd538a267e6613aa0c927b3c1c4fdb9e9
05 Affected products
06 References
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2749http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2749.html
- dev.mysql.comhttps://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-52.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0184http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0184.html
- seclists.org20161101 MySQL / MariaDB / PerconaDB - Privilege Escalation / Race Condition Exploit [CVE-2016-6663 / OCVE-2016-5616]http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Nov/4
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2131http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2131.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/4e5473862e6852b0f3802b0cd0c6fa10b5253291
- mariadb.comhttps://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-5552-release-notes/
- www.percona.comhttps://www.percona.com/blog/2016/11/02/percona-responds-to-cve-2016-6663-and-cve-2016-6664/
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html
- www.exploit-db.com40678https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40678/
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2130http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2130.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2927http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2927.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161025 Re: CVE-2016-6662 - MySQL Remote Root Code Execution / Privilege Escalation ( 0day )http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/25/4
- dev.mysql.comhttps://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-33.html
- www.securityfocus.com92911http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92911
- www.securityfocus.com93614http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93614
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2595http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2595.html
- dev.mysql.comhttps://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-1.html
- mariadb.comhttps://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10118-release-notes/
- dev.mysql.comhttps://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-15.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/347eeefbfc658c8531878218487d729f4e020805
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2928http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2928.html
- mariadb.comhttps://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10028-release-notes/
- legalhackers.comhttps://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Maria-Percona-PrivEscRace-CVE-2016-6663-5616-Exploit.html
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- mariadb-5.5 Fixed in 5.5.52-1ubuntu0.14.04.1
- mysql-5.5 Fixed in 5.5.52-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- mariadb-10.0 Fixed in 10.0.28-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
- percona-server-5.6 No fix yet
- percona-xtradb-cluster-5.6 Fixed in 5.6.34-26.19-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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