Vulnerability in mariadb-10.5 (DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46661)

Summary

Vulnerability in mariadb-10.5 (DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46661). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 1:10.5.15-0+deb11u1 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

MariaDB through 10.5.9 allows an application crash in find_field_in_tables and find_order_in_list via an unused common table expression (CTE).

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46661 has been found in mariadb-10.5.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade mariadb-10.5 to 1:10.5.15-0+deb11u1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "mariadb-10.5 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46661" on the vendor's site.

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46661 (mariadb-10.5)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 1:10.5.15-0+deb11u1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in mariadb-10.5.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of mariadb-10.5.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 1:10.5.15-0+deb11u1.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'mariadb-10.5' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'mariadb-10.5' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で mariadb-10.5 を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade mariadb-10.5 to 1:10.5.15-0+deb11u1
```
ステージング環境で 1:10.5.15-0+deb11u1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Debian:11 mariadb-10.5

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:10.5.15-0+deb11u1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org