CVE-2026-75092

CVE CVE-2026-75092EUVD EUVD-2026-78326Published 2026-09-15T08:23:12.000ZLast changed 2026-09-15T16:12:49.000ZCVSS 7.3

What the advisory describes

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the scan_mysql actor of leapp-upgrade-el9toel10 (provided by leapp-repository). During RHEL 9 to RHEL 10 upgrades, the actor runs: mysqld --validate-config --log-error-verbosity=2 directly as root in the Leapp actor context, bypassing the packaged MySQL systemd unit that normally starts the daemon as User=mysql. A process compromised as the mysql OS identity can write a version-2 persisted configuration (mysqld-auto.cnf) and a malicious shared object into /var/lib/mysql (a directory owned by mysql). That persisted map can set plugin_dir to /var/lib/mysql and early_plugin_load (or related loader options such as plugin_load / plugin_load_add) so MySQL loads the attacker-controlled object during configuration validation. Plugin loading can reach dlopen() before MySQL’s runtime-user check and before plugin-symbol validation. When an administrator subsequently runs the documented Leapp preupgrade or upgrade workflow, attacker-controlled code can execute as UID 0 with a full capability set in an unconfined SELinux domain (unconfined_t). The attack does not require write access to the default system plugin path under /usr; redirecting plugin_dir via mysql-owned persisted state is sufficient. Ordinary SQL privileges alone (including highly privileged SQL accounts) are not a sufficient startpoint — OS-level execution as the mysql service identity is required, plus later administrator invocation of Leapp.

Source: EUVD (ENISA), in the words of the advisory.

Products the advisory names

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• Red Hat — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 patch: 0:0.24.0-1.el9_8.1
• Red Hat — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support patch: 0:0.22.0-1.el9_6.2

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Carried in the product catalogue

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• Red Hat — Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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