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CVE-2024-20978: 
MySQL vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A vulnerability has been identified in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Optimizer), affecting versions 8.0.35 and prior, and 8.2.0 and prior. This vulnerability (CVE-2024-20978) is easily exploitable by a high-privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned 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 attack requires network access and high privileges, but has low attack complexity and requires no user interaction (NVD, Oracle Advisory).

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 (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Oracle has released patches to address this vulnerability in their January 2024 Critical Patch Update. Users are strongly advised to update to the latest version of MySQL Server. The fix is included in MySQL version 8.0.36 (Oracle Advisory).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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