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CVE-2016-5541

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Cluster component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Cluster: NDBAPI). Supported versions that are affected are 7.2.26 and earlier, 7.3.14 and earlier and 7.4.12 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Cluster. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Cluster accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of MySQL Cluster. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 4.8 (Integrity and Availability impacts).

Affected products

• Oracle Corporation MySQL Cluster: through 7.2.26; through 7.3.14; through 7.4.12

References

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95592
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037640
• https://twitter.com/NicolasLemonias/status/821954512168648705
• https://www.docdroid.net/o2uVeg4/cve2016554.pdf.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95592
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037640
• https://twitter.com/NicolasLemonias/status/821954512168648705
• https://www.docdroid.net/o2uVeg4/cve2016554.pdf.html

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