Saturday, 15 April 2017
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“The Riddle is a critical security vulnerability found in Oracle’s MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 client database libraries. The vulnerability allows an attacker to use riddle in the middle for breaking SSL configured connection between MySQL client and server.” states the description of the flaw.“This
vulnerability is a very critical security hole because it affects MySQL
— a very popular SQL database — and SSL connection which is by its
definition secure.”
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-3305, potentially
exposes login credentials to eavesdropping, an attacker can capture
them when a MySQL clients 5.5 and 5.6 send them to servers.
A security update released for the versions 5.5.49 and
5.6.30 failed to completely fix the bug. The experts noticed that the
Versions 5.7 and later, as well as MariaDB systems, are not affected by
this issue.
“Security update for the stable MySQL 5.5.49 and 5.6.30 versions consisted of adding a verification of security parameters after the authentication process was finished.” “Since it is done after the authentication, riddle in the middle attack together with SSL-downgrade attack can be used by the attacker to steal login data for immediate authentication and log into the MySQL server,” wrote Rohár.
“Ridiculous part is that MySQL client doesn’t report any SSL-related error when MySQL server declines to authenticate a user and instead reports unencrypted error message send by the server. Furthermore, the error message is controlled by the attacker, when the riddle in the middle attack is active.”
The expert suggests updating the client software to MySQL 5.7 or MariaDB, because the security updates for these applications correctly work.
The Riddle vulnerability was discovered in February, but today the bug still affect the Oracle MySql software.
“Reporting bugs to Oracle is useless (even those which are security related) if you are not an Oracle customer. They can perfectly ignore any reports and they would be very happy if nobody knew about it so they don’t have to fix the bugs,” explains Rohár.
“It looks like immediate public disclosure is the best responsible solution for the users, as it is the only way to protect them and let them know immediately what should be done if they are affected.”
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