CVE-2002-0969 — HIGH severity vulnerability (Buffer overflow in MySQL daemon (mysqld) before 3.23.50, and)
Buffer overflow in MySQL daemon (mysqld) before 3.23.50, and 4.0 beta before 4.02, on the Win32 platform, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long "datadir" parameter in the my.ini initialization file, whose permissions on Windows allow Full Control to the Everyone group.
| CVE ID | CVE-2002-0969 |
|---|---|
| Severity | HIGH |
| CVSS score | 7.8 |
| CVSS vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| CWE | CWE-120 |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 2002-10-11 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| Description | Buffer overflow in MySQL daemon (mysqld) before 3.23.50, and 4.0 beta before 4.02, on the Win32 platform, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long "datadir" parameter in the my.ini initialization file, whose permissions on Windows allow Full Control to the Everyone group. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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