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CriticalVulnerabilityGHSA-fpw7-j2hg-69v5CVE-2024-21508Published 11 Apr 2024

mysql2 Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the readCodeFor function

Affected releases · mysql2

  • 3.x3.0.0 – 3.9.3Fixed in 3.9.4
  • 2.x and older0.0.1 – 2.3.3No fix, no longer updated

On 3.x, the newest line:

npm install mysql2@3.9.4
3.x

  1. Affected

    3.0.0 – 3.9.3

    38 releases

  2. Fixed

    3.9.4 – 3.24.6

    65 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 3.9.4 are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the readCodeFor function due to improper validation of the supportBigNumbers and bigNumberStrings values.