CVE-2020-2579 — Vulnetix

CVE-2020-2579 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Optimizer). Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.46 and prior, 5.7.28 and prior and 8.0.18 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low 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 6.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

EPSS 0.60% · 70.1th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.60%

70.1th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS	mysql-8.0	8.0.17-0ubuntu2, 8.0.18-0ubuntu3, 8.0.18-0ubuntu4
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	percona-server-5.6	5.6.22-rel71.0-0ubuntu2, 5.6.22-rel71.0-0ubuntu4.1, *
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	mysql-5.7	5.7.25-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, 5.7.19-0ubuntu1, 5.7.20-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	mysql-5.7	0, 5.7.26-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 5.7.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	percona-xtradb-cluster-5.6	5.6.37-26.21-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 5.6.21-25.8-0ubuntu2, 5.6.21-25.8-0ubuntu3
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	mysql-5.5	5.5.59-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 5.5.58-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 5.5.57-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Timeline

Jan 15, 2020 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-2579 third-party-advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html#AppendixMSQL third-party-advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4250-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-2579 third-party-advisory

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