CVE-2023-22053 Denial of service in MySQL Server

Medium 5.9 Published 18 Jul 2023 Updated 13 Feb 2025

A low-privileged attacker can cause a complete denial of service and read limited data from MySQL Server via network access.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2023-22053?

CVE-2023-22053 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 18 Jul 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Client programs). Supported versions that are affected are 5.7.42 and prior and 8.0.33 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low 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 and unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Server accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.9 (Confidentiality and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-22053?

It affects 6 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2023-22053?

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-2023-22053 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-22053 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as AZL-27468, GHSA-jx4c-v89f-3pc6, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-22053.