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CriticalVulnerabilityGHSA-4rch-2fh8-94vwCVE-2024-21511Published 23 Apr 2024

MySQL2 for Node Arbitrary Code Injection

Affected releases · mysql2

  • 3.x3.0.0 – 3.9.6Fixed in 3.9.7
  • 2.x and older0.0.1 – 2.3.3No fix, no longer updated

On 3.x, the newest line:

npm install mysql2@3.9.7
3.x

  1. Affected

    3.0.0 – 3.9.6

    41 releases

  2. Fixed

    3.9.7 – 3.24.6

    62 releases, latest

2.x

  1. Affected

    2.0.0 – 2.3.3

    14 releases

1.x

  1. Affected

    1.0.0 – 1.7.0

    27 releases

0.x

  1. Affected

    0.0.1 – 0.15.8

    74 releases

218 stable releases of mysql2, oldest to newest, one row per major.

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What happens

Versions of the package mysql2 before 3.9.7 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection due to improper sanitization of the timezone parameter in the readCodeFor function by calling a native MySQL Server date/time function.