vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-20994

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 16, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Information Schema). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.36 and prior and 8.3.0 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. 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

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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