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vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2025-21520

Severity
1
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:M/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 21, 2025
Added
Jul 2, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Options). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.40 and prior, 8.4.3 and prior and 9.1.0 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where MySQL Server executes to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Server accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 1.8 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N).

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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