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CVE-2020-2768: 
MySQL vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2020-2768 is a vulnerability in the MySQL Cluster product of Oracle MySQL (component: Cluster: General). The vulnerability affects MySQL Cluster versions 7.3.28 and prior, 7.4.27 and prior, 7.5.17 and prior, 7.6.13 and prior and 8.0.19 and prior. This vulnerability was disclosed in April 2020 (Oracle CPUApr2020).

Technical details

The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.0 Base Score of 6.3 (Integrity and Availability impacts) with the following vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H. This indicates it is a medium severity vulnerability that requires network access and low privileges with user interaction to exploit (NVD).

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Cluster as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Cluster accessible data (CVE Mitre).

Mitigation and workarounds

Oracle has released patches to address this vulnerability in MySQL Cluster versions after 7.3.28, 7.4.27, 7.5.17, 7.6.13, and 8.0.19. Users should upgrade to the patched versions to mitigate this vulnerability (Gentoo Security).

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