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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-21262

CVE-2024-21262: 
MySQL vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL (component: Connector/ODBC). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.39 and prior, 9.0.0 and prior. This is an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors (Oracle CPU Oct 2024, NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 6.5 (MEDIUM) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L. The attack vector is network-based, with low attack complexity, requiring no privileges or user interaction (Oracle CPU Oct 2024).

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Connectors accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of MySQL Connectors (Oracle CPU Oct 2024).

Mitigation and workarounds

Oracle has released patches for affected versions. Users should upgrade to the latest version of MySQL Connectors. Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply Critical Patch Update security patches as soon as possible (Oracle CPU Oct 2024).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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