CVE-2017-3633 Denial of service in Communications Policy Management
An unauthenticated attacker can cause a complete denial of service and modify some data in MySQL Server via the Memcached component.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2017-3633?
CVE-2017-3633 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Communications Policy Management, published on 8 Aug 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: Memcached). Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.36 and earlier and 5.7.18 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via Memcached 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 as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Server accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-3633?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Oracle Communications Policy Management, Oracle Mysql.
How do I fix CVE-2017-3633?
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-2017-3633 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-3633 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Communications Policy Management
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xp8h-g29p-cq44, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-3633.