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CVE-2020-2572 json

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

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-22365

cvss
2.7
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Audit Plugin). Supported versions that are affected are 5.7.28 and prior and 8.0.18 and prior. 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 update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Server accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 2.7 (Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N).

Patch / fix

  • mysql-5.7 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 5.7.29-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • mysql-5.7 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.7.29-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  • mysql-8.0 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 8.0.19-0ubuntu2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-2572

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

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-2572 updated cvss 2.7

mysql: Server: Audit Plugin unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2020)

  • 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 8 Judy, mecab, mysql, galera, mariadb, mysql-libs, +18 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) mariadb-galera, mariadb-galera-common, mariadb-galera-server Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) mariadb, mariadb-libs, mariadb-test, mariadb-common, mariadb-config, mariadb-errmsg, +3 more
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Software Collections rh-mysql80-mysql, rh-mariadb102-mariadb, rh-mariadb103-mariadb, rh-mysql80-mysql-test, rh-mysql80-mysql-common, rh-mysql80-mysql-config, +41 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
2y ago

Exploit prediction

1.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 2.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 2.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Oracle Corporation MySQL Server

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