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Oracle MySQL Vulnerability: CVE-2020-14550

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Oracle MySQL Vulnerability: CVE-2020-14550

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/15/2020
Created
07/23/2020
Added
07/23/2020
Modified
07/23/2020

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Client product of Oracle MySQL (component: C API). Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.48 and prior, 5.7.30 and prior and 8.0.20 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Client. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Client. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Solution(s)

  • mysql-upgrade-latest

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