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Oracle MySQL Vulnerability: CVE-2020-14839

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Oracle MySQL Vulnerability: CVE-2020-14839

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/21/2020
Created
10/28/2020
Added
10/28/2020
Modified
10/28/2020

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Optimizer). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.21 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.9 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Solution(s)

  • mysql-upgrade-latest

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