FKIE_CVE-2024-21508

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-04-11 05:15 - Updated: 2026-04-15 00:35
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Versions of the package mysql2 before 3.9.4 are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the readCodeFor function due to improper validation of the supportBigNumbers and bigNumberStrings values.
References
report@snyk.iohttps://blog.slonser.info/posts/mysql2-attacker-configuration/
report@snyk.iohttps://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/blob/1609b5393516d72a4ae47196837317fbe75e0c13/lib/parsers/text_parser.js%23L14C10-L14C21
report@snyk.iohttps://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/commit/74abf9ef94d76114d9a09415e28b496522a94805
report@snyk.iohttps://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/pull/2572
report@snyk.iohttps://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/releases/tag/v3.9.4
report@snyk.iohttps://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MYSQL2-6591085
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.slonser.info/posts/mysql2-attacker-configuration/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/blob/1609b5393516d72a4ae47196837317fbe75e0c13/lib/parsers/text_parser.js%23L14C10-L14C21
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/commit/74abf9ef94d76114d9a09415e28b496522a94805
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/pull/2572
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/releases/tag/v3.9.4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MYSQL2-6591085
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  "lastModified": "2026-04-15T00:35:42.020",
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