CVE-2019-2797

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.2 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% 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: Client programs). Supported versions that are affected are 5.7.26 and prior and 8.0.16 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with access to the physical communication segment attached to the hardware where the 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 4.2 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.04
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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