CVE-2017-10286 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.4 Published 19 Oct 2017 Updated 4 Oct 2024

A high-privileged attacker can cause a complete denial of service in MySQL Server via a difficult-to-exploit vulnerability in the InnoDB component.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: An administrator
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2017-10286?

CVE-2017-10286 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mariadb Mariadb, published on 19 Oct 2017. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: InnoDB). Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.37 and earlier and 5.7.19 and earlier. Difficult to exploit 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 3.0 Base Score 4.4 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-10286?

It affects 9 products.

Products include Mariadb Mariadb, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Oncommand Balance, Netapp Oncommand Insight, Netapp Oncommand Performance Manager, Netapp Oncommand Unified Manager and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2017-10286?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-10286 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10286 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-96j4-972j-4fr2, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10286.