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CVE-2026-55857: MariaDB Connector/J: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information and Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 23/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.39% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • Fixed version: org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client (Maven) 3.3.5, 3.4.3, 3.5.9.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client (Maven) 3.3.5, 3.4.3, 3.5.9 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to 2.7.14, 3.3.5, 3.4.3, and 3.5.9, PAM dialog authentication can be coerced into transmitting the account password over an insecure connection. The mysql_clear_password plugin is gated behind a secure transport, but the sibling PAM handler SendPamAuthPacketFactory, named dialog by the server, does not declare that requirement and inherits the default secure-required value false; older branches implement the same affected behavior in SendPamAuthPacket. A hostile or man-in-the-middle server can send an Authentication Switch Request for dialog over plain TCP, causing the driver to return the user's password in cleartext when sslMode=DISABLE and restrictedAuth=null, which is the default configuration. Properly verified TLS and local Unix sockets are not exposed to this transport vector. This issue is fixed in versions 2.7.14, 3.3.5, 3.4.3, and 3.5.9.

MediumCVSS 5.9 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Aug 28, 2026
Updated
Sep 8, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 33th percentile

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Action score

23

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
23 / 40 · 5.9 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · GitHub_M
5.9
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • mariadb-corporation mariadb-connector-j

    • < 2.7.14, >= 3.0.0, < 3.3.5, >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.3, >= 3.5.0, < 3.5.9affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Mavenorg.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-clientfrom 3.0.0 · before 3.3.53.3.5
Mavenorg.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-clientfrom 3.4.0 · before 3.4.33.4.3
Mavenorg.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-clientfrom 3.5.0 · before 3.5.93.5.9
Mavenorg.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-clientbefore 2.7.142.7.14

Same product

mariadb-corporation: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-119281MariaDB Connector/J: Server could switch character_set_results away from UTF-8 without the client noticing
    23Monitor
  • CVE-2026-119279MariaDB Connector/J: Length-encoded integers larger than Integer.MAX_VALUE were truncated before being used as lengths
    23Monitor
  • CVE-2026-119278MariaDB Connector/J: Rogue server can crash the client during caching_sha2_password authentication
    23Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-55856Aug 28, 2026 · MariaDB Connector/J: Cleartext password disclosure to a MITM on the initial-handshake
    23Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-55858Aug 28, 2026 · MariaDB Connector/J: Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context in org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client
    23Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-61700Sep 17, 2026 · MariaDB Connector/J does not enforce allowLocalInfile=false on server-initiated LOCAL INFILE requests
    14Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Maven:org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client2.7.14Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client3.3.5Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client3.4.3Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client3.5.9Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-319 · Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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