CVE-2019-2778

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: Security: Privileges). Supported versions that are affected are 5.7.26 and prior and 8.0.16 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols 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 and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.4 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L).

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.04
Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30
MySQL Server: from 5.7.0 through 5.7.26; from 8.0.0 through 8.0.16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
RedHat Software Collections: 1.0

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