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CVE-2018-2773

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Client programs). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.59 and prior, 5.6.39 and prior and 5.7.21 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where MySQL Server executes to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.1 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 7.10, 14.04, 16.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• MySQL Server: from 5.5.0 through 5.5.59; from 5.6.0 through 5.6.39; from 5.7.0 through 5.7.21

References

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103811
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040698
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1254
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3655
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00020.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180419-0002/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3629-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3629-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3629-3/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4176
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html

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