CVE-2025-50078 Denial of service in MySQL Server

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

A low-privileged attacker can cause a complete denial of service in 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-2025-50078?

CVE-2025-50078 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Mysql, published on 15 Jul 2025. 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: Server: DML). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.0-8.0.42, 8.4.0-8.4.5 and 9.0.0-9.3.0. Easily exploitable 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. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-50078?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Mysql.

How do I fix CVE-2025-50078?

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-2025-50078 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-50078 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as AZL-65318, AZL-65438, GHSA-vh54-wwr5-29q5, MINI-5h85-8m5v-4jvg, MINI-hg4r-hc2m-8fqq, MINI-w547-4x8f-vmr3 and 1 more.

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