CVE-2020-14878

Summary

CVECVE-2020-14878
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-21 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-01-04 17:54:00 UTC
DescriptionVulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Security: LDAP Auth). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.21 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with access to the physical communication segment attached to the hardware where the MySQL Server executes to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of MySQL Server. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Oracle Mysql All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202105-27) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2020 MISC www.oracle.com Vendor Advisory
October 2020 MySQL Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296070 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 28.82.3 Missing (CPUOCT2020)
  • 690386 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for mysql (4fba07ca-13aa-11eb-b31e-d4c9ef517024)
  • 710088 Gentoo Linux MySQL Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202105-27)
  • 900074 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for mysql 8.0.21
  • 903043 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for mysql (3193)
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