CVE-2024-20965 Denial of service in MySQL NDB Cluster

Medium 4.9 Published 16 Jan 2024 Updated 20 Jun 2025

High-privileged attackers can cause a complete denial of service in MySQL Server via the Optimizer 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-2024-20965?

CVE-2024-20965 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netapp Oncommand Insight, published on 16 Jan 2024. 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: Optimizer). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.35 and prior and 8.2.0 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 hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.9 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-20965?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Netapp Oncommand Insight, Oracle Mysql.

How do I fix CVE-2024-20965?

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-2024-20965 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20965 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Netapp Oncommand Insight vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as AZL-33509, AZL-62961, GHSA-4j85-8vqx-f8qv, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-20965.