CVE-2017-3636

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Client programs). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.56 and earlier and 5.6.36 and earlier. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where MySQL Server executes to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Server accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Server accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
MariaDB: from 5.5.0 before 5.5.57; from 10.0.0 before 10.0.32; from 10.1.0 before 10.1.26; from 10.2.0 before 10.2.8 — fixed in 10.0.32, 10.1.26, 10.2.8, 5.5.57
MySQL Server: from 5.5.0 through 5.5.56; from 5.6.0 through 5.6.36
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.6
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.5, 7.6
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.6
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
OpenStack: 12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MariaDB 10.0.32, 10.1.26, 10.2.8, 5.5.57. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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