CVE-2022-21249 Denial of service in MySQL Server

What is CVE-2022-21249?

CVE-2022-21249 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 19 Jan 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: DDL). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.27 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 ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 2.7 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-21249?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Oncommand Insight, Netapp Oncommand Workflow Automation, Netapp Snapcenter, Oracle Mysql.

How do I fix CVE-2022-21249?

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-2022-21249 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-21249 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-7578, GHSA-3vpr-5c7j-jpgx, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-21249.