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GSD-2021-3779

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2022-06-28 00:00
Details
A malicious MySQL server can request local file content from a client using ruby-mysql prior to version 2.10.0 without explicit authorization from the user. This issue was resolved in version 2.10.0 and later.
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CVE-2021-3779
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