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medium 6.6

CVE-2022-21363 json

Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges in MySQL Connectors Java

published 2022-01-19 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-g76j-4cxx-23h9 , EUVD-2022-0597

cvss
6.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL (component: Connector/J). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.27 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of MySQL Connectors. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.6 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Patch / fix

  • maven mysql:mysql-connector-java 8.0.28
  • quarkus quarkus 2.7.0
  • mysql CBL-Mariner 2.0 8.0.28-1

azure linux advisories AZL-7739

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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-2022-21363 updated cvss 6.6

mysql-connector-java: Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors

  • Red Hat build of Debezium 1 mysql-connector-java
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 mysql-connector-java Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 mysql-connector-java Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 mysql-connector-java Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 mysql-connector-java Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 mysql-connector-java
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-metering-presto
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Satellite 6 candlepin, candlepin-selinux
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.7.5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:4623
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:5532
  • Red Hat RHPAM 7.13.1 async
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:6813
  • Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 mysql-connector-java Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 mysql-connector-java
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
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  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 mysql-connector-java
    not affected: vulnerable code not in execute path

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
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven mysql:mysql-connector-java
<8.0.28
8.0.28

Affected products

  • Oracle Corporation MySQL Connectors

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-280 Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges

References

Sources

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