CVE-2025-53053
MySQL vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: DML) affecting versions 8.0.0-8.0.43, 8.4.0-8.4.6, and 9.0.0-9.4.0. This vulnerability was disclosed in October 2025 and requires a high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server (Oracle Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 5.5 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H. The attack requires network access and high privileges but is considered easily exploitable. The vulnerability is tracked under CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) (NVD).

Impact

Successful exploitation can result in two primary impacts: unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server, and unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some MySQL Server accessible data (Oracle Advisory).

Mitigation and workarounds

Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply the Critical Patch Update security patches as soon as possible. The vulnerability affects MySQL Server versions 8.0.0-8.0.43, 8.4.0-8.4.6, and 9.0.0-9.4.0, and users should upgrade to the latest patched versions (Oracle Advisory).

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