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CVE-2020-2573

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-01-15 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Client product of Oracle MySQL (component: C API). Supported versions that are affected are 5.7.28 and prior and 8.0.18 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Client. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Client. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.9 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
• OnCommand Insight: all versions
• NetApp OnCommand Workflow Automation: all versions
• NetApp SnapCenter: all versions
• MySQL Server: from 5.7.0 through 5.7.28; from 8.0.0 through 8.0.18

References

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-27
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200122-0002/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4250-1/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-27
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200122-0002/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4250-1/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html

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