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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-22046

CVE-2023-22046: 
MySQL vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2023-22046 is a vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL, specifically affecting the Server: Optimizer component in versions 8.0.33 and prior. This vulnerability allows high privileged attackers with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server (Oracle Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 4.9 (Medium severity) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H. The scoring indicates that the vulnerability requires network access, has low attack complexity, requires high privileges, needs no user interaction, has unchanged scope, and impacts only availability (NVD).

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. The vulnerability only affects availability, with no impact on confidentiality or integrity (Oracle Advisory).

Mitigation and workarounds

Oracle has released patches for this vulnerability in MySQL version 8.0.34. Users are strongly recommended to update to this version or later. The fix has been incorporated into various distributions including Fedora's community-mysql-8.0.34 package (Fedora Update).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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