MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2010-3839

Mysql vulnerability

CVSS
4.0
EPSS
3.4%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
MySQL 5.1 before 5.1.51 and 5.5 before 5.5.6 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via multiple invocations of a (1) prepared statement or (2) stored procedure that creates a query with nested JOIN statements.
Affected vendor
Mysql
Affected product
Mysql
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2011-01-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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