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medium 5.3

CVE-2017-3635 json

Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Connector/C).

published 2017-08-08 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-12752

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Connector/C). Supported versions that are affected are 6.1.10 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Connectors. Note: The documentation has also been updated for the correct way to use mysql_stmt_close(). Please see: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-stmt-execute.html, https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-stmt-fetch.html, https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-stmt-close.html, https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-stmt-error.html, https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-stmt-errno.html, and https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-stmt-sqlstate.html. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.3 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Patch / fix

  • mysql-5.5 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 5.5.57-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • mysql-5.7 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 5.7.19-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • mysql-5.7 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.7.19-0ubuntu1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-3635

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • mysql SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 5.5.57-0.39.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:2290-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-3635 updated cvss 5.3

mysql: C API unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2017)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 mysql55-mysql Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 mysql, mysql-libs, mysql-test, mysql-bench, mysql-server, mysql-embedded Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 mariadb, mariadb-libs, mariadb-test, mariadb-bench, mariadb-server, mariadb-embedded Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) mariadb-galera Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) mariadb-galera, mariadb-galera-common, mariadb-galera-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) mariadb-galera, mariadb-galera-common, mariadb-galera-server
    +5 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) mariadb-galera, mariadb-galera-common, mariadb-galera-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) mariadb-galera, mariadb-galera-common, mariadb-galera-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata) mariadb-galera Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) mariadb-galera-common, mariadb-galera-server Red Hat Software Collections rh-mysql56-mysql, rh-mysql57-mysql, rh-mariadb100-mariadb, rh-mariadb101-mariadb, rh-mariadb102-mariadb, rh-mysql56-mysql-test, +43 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

2.03% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • Oracle Corporation MySQL Server

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

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