UBUNTU-CVE-2026-119281 (CVE-2026-119281)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-10-30 00:00 – Updated: 2026-10-30 00:00 – Source websiteMariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. From 3.0.0 until 3.3.7, 3.4.5, and 3.5.11, the connector assumed result bytes were UTF-8 but guarded only changes to character_set_client. It did not reject non-UTF-8 character_set_results changes and relied on the server's global session_track_system_variables configuration to report character-set changes. A malicious or compromised server, or a machine-in-the-middle attacker, could suppress tracking or change the result charset so application strings differed from the returned bytes, potentially defeating application-side validation or escaping that depended on the decoded values. This issue is fixed in versions 3.3.7, 3.4.5, and 3.5.11.
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"details": "MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. From 3.0.0 until 3.3.7, 3.4.5, and 3.5.11, the connector assumed result bytes were UTF-8 but guarded only changes to character_set_client. It did not reject non-UTF-8 character_set_results changes and relied on the server\u0027s global session_track_system_variables configuration to report character-set changes. A malicious or compromised server, or a machine-in-the-middle attacker, could suppress tracking or change the result charset so application strings differed from the returned bytes, potentially defeating application-side validation or escaping that depended on the decoded values. This issue is fixed in versions 3.3.7, 3.4.5, and 3.5.11.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-119281",
"modified": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z",
"published": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z",
"references": [
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"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-119281"
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"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-119281"
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"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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{
"score": "medium",
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