CVE-2023-21971

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL (component: Connector/J). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.32 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Connectors as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Connectors accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Connectors accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H).

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
OnCommand Insight: all versions
NetApp SnapCenter: all versions
Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Binding Support Function: 22.4.0, 23.1.0
Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Policy: 22.4.0, 23.1.0
Oracle Mysql Connectors: from 8.0.0 through 8.0.32

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