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medium 4.9

CVE-2025-21492 json

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Optimizer).

published 2025-01-21 21 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-2482

cvss
4.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Optimizer). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.36 and prior and 8.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high 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 3.1 Base Score 4.9 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Patch / fix

  • oracle mysql 8.0.37, 8.4.1
  • oracle mysql_server 8.0.37, 8.4.1
  • mysql-8.0 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 8.0.37-0ubuntu0.20.04.3
  • mysql-8.0 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 8.0.37-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
  • mysql-8.0 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 8.0.37-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21492

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

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-2025-21492 updated cvss 4.9

mysql: MySQL Server: Denial of Service via network access

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 mecab, mysql, mysql-libs, mysql-test, mecab-ipadic, mysql-common, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 mysql, mysql-libs, mysql-test, mysql-common, mysql-errmsg, mysql-server
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 mysql, mysql-libs, mysql-test, mysql-bench, mysql-server, mysql-embedded Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 mysql8.4
    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
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Oracle Corporation MySQL Server

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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References

Sources

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