Vulnerability · Published Jan 20, 2021 · Assigned by oracle

CVE-2021-2042

Low 2.3

In plain English

A low-severity security flaw in MySQL Server from Oracle Corporation. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 39% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)2.3Low

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 60.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: InnoDB). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.21 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where MySQL Server executes to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Server accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 2.3 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N).

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Oracle Corporation	MySQL Server	8.0.21 and prior

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html x_refsource_MISC
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210219-0003/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
GLSA-202105-27 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO