CVE-2021-1998

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-01-20 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Optimizer). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.20 and prior. 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 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 3.1 Base Score 3.8 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L).

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33
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 through 8.0.20

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