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CVE-2020-2898

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Charsets). The supported version that is affected is 8.0.19. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols 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 4.9 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31, 32
• 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 8.0.0 before 8.0.19 — fixed in 8.0.19

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MySQL Server 8.0.19. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/77REFDB7DE4WNKQIRGZTF53RFBQOXQLC/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SDGBQYS3A36S4CAZPV5YROHYXYZR6LAH/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TSVLI36TYRTPQGCS24VZQUXCUFOUW4VQ/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-27
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200416-0003/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4350-1/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/77REFDB7DE4WNKQIRGZTF53RFBQOXQLC/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SDGBQYS3A36S4CAZPV5YROHYXYZR6LAH/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TSVLI36TYRTPQGCS24VZQUXCUFOUW4VQ/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-27
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200416-0003/

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