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Oracle MySQL Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5541

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Oracle MySQL Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5541

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/27/2017
Created
05/13/2024
Added
05/10/2024
Modified
05/10/2024

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Cluster component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Cluster: NDBAPI). Supported versions that are affected are 7.2.26 and earlier, 7.3.14 and earlier and 7.4.12 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Cluster. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Cluster accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of MySQL Cluster. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 4.8 (Integrity and Availability impacts).

Solution(s)

  • mysql-upgrade-7_2_27
  • mysql-upgrade-7_3_15
  • mysql-upgrade-7_4_13

References

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