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CVE-2020-2922:
MySQL vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2020-2922 is a vulnerability in the MySQL Client product of Oracle MySQL, specifically affecting the C API component. The affected versions include MySQL 5.6.47 and prior, 5.7.29 and prior, and 8.0.18 and prior. The vulnerability was disclosed in April 2020 (Oracle CPU).
Technical details
This is a difficult to exploit vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Client. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.0 Base Score of 3.7 (Low severity) with the following vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N (NVD).
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Client accessible data (Oracle CPU).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in MySQL versions 5.7.30 and 8.0.19. Users should upgrade to these or later versions. For Ubuntu systems, updates are available through standard system updates for affected versions (Ubuntu).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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