National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2002-1374
Orirignal release date: 2002-12-23
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The COM_CHANGE_USER command in MySQL 3.x before 3.23.54, and 4.x before 4.0.6, allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a brute force attack using a one-character password, which causes MySQL to only compare the provided password against the first character of the real password.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: design
    Impact Type: sec_prot user="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    MySQL (MySQL)
    NetBackup Global Data Manager (Symantec Veritas)
    NetBackup Advanced Reporter (Symantec Veritas)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-1374