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OESA-2022-1496 (CVE-2020-29050)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2022-01-22 11:04 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:04 – Source website

Summary

sphinx security update

Details

Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial licensing (e.g. for embedded use) is also available upon request. Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant full-text search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data source drivers support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, or PostgreSQL, or from a pipe in a custom XML format. Adding new drivers (e.g. native support other DBMSes) is designed to be as easy as possible. Search API native ported to PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, and also available as a plug-gable MySQL storage engine. API is very lightweight so porting it to new language is known to take a few hours. As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase Index. Yes, I know about CMU's Sphinx project.

Security Fix(es):

SphinxSearch in Sphinx Technologies Sphinx through 3.1.1 allows directory traversal (in conjunction with CVE-2019-14511) because the mysql client can be used for CALL SNIPPETS and load_file operations on a full pathname (e.g., a file in the /etc directory). NOTE: this is unrelated to CMUSphinx.(CVE-2020-29050)

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29050	ADVISORY

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CVE-2020-29050 (GCVE-0-2020-29050)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-07 06:02 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:48

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://blog.wirhabenstil.de/2019/08/19/sphinxsea…	x_refsource_MISC
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

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