GHSA-fpw7-j2hg-69v5

mysql2 Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the readCodeFor function

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2024-21508

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	mysql2	< 3.9.4	3.9.4

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21508 advisory
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/pull/2572 web
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/commit/74abf9ef94d76114d9a09415e28b496522a94805 web
https://blog.slonser.info/posts/mysql2-attacker-configuration web
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2 package
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/blob/1609b5393516d72a4ae47196837317fbe75e0c13/lib/parsers/text_parser.js%23L14C10-L14C21 web
https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/releases/tag/v3.9.4 web
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MYSQL2-6591085 web