vulnerability

Oracle MySQL Vulnerability: CVE-2021-2356

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 21, 2021
Added
Jul 26, 2021
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Replication). Supported versions that are affected are 5.7.34 and prior and 8.0.25 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low 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 as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Server accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.9 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H).

Solution

mysql-upgrade-latest
Title
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