Oracle MySQL Cluster/MySQL Client up to 7.6.34/8.0.42/8.4.5/9.3.0 Mysqldump improper authorization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Oracle MySQL Cluster and MySQL Client up to 7.6.34/8.0.42/8.4.5/9.3.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Mysqldump. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-50081. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle MySQL Cluster and MySQL Client up to 7.6.34/8.0.42/8.4.5/9.3.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Mysqldump. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in the MySQL Client product of Oracle MySQL (component: Client: mysqldump). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.0-8.0.42, 8.4.0-8.4.5 and 9.0.0-9.3.0. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Client. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Client accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Client accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 3.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).

The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-50081 since 06/12/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 12/02/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1548.002.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 244800 (CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: mysql (CVE-2025-50081)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (244800) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1567). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Oracle MySQL
• Ubuntu Linux
• Oracle Linux
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Xerox FreeFlow Print Server

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Type

• Database Software

Vendor

• Oracle

Name

• MySQL Client
• MySQL Cluster

Version

• 7.6.0
• 7.6.1
• 7.6.2
• 7.6.3
• 7.6.4
• 7.6.5
• 7.6.6
• 7.6.7
• 7.6.8
• 7.6.9
• 7.6.10
• 7.6.11
• 7.6.12
• 7.6.13
• 7.6.14
• 7.6.15
• 7.6.16
• 7.6.17
• 7.6.18
• 7.6.19
• 7.6.20
• 7.6.21
• 7.6.22
• 7.6.23
• 7.6.24
• 7.6.25
• 7.6.26
• 7.6.27
• 7.6.28
• 7.6.29
• 7.6.30
• 7.6.31
• 7.6.32
• 7.6.33
• 7.6.34
• 8.0.0
• 8.0.1
• 8.0.2
• 8.0.3
• 8.0.4
• 8.0.5
• 8.0.6
• 8.0.7
• 8.0.8
• 8.0.9
• 8.0.10
• 8.0.11
• 8.0.12
• 8.0.13
• 8.0.14
• 8.0.15
• 8.0.16
• 8.0.17
• 8.0.18
• 8.0.19
• 8.0.20
• 8.0.21
• 8.0.22
• 8.0.23
• 8.0.24
• 8.0.25
• 8.0.26
• 8.0.27
• 8.0.28
• 8.0.29
• 8.0.30
• 8.0.31
• 8.0.32
• 8.0.33
• 8.0.34
• 8.0.35
• 8.0.36
• 8.0.37
• 8.0.38
• 8.0.39
• 8.0.40
• 8.0.41
• 8.0.42
• 8.4.0
• 8.4.1
• 8.4.2
• 8.4.3
• 8.4.4
• 8.4.5
• 9.0
• 9.1
• 9.2
• 9.3.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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