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CVE-2012-5614
Oracle MySQL 5.1.67 and earlier and 5.5.29 and earlier, and MariaDB 5.5.28a and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users…
Medium4.0EPSS 13.2%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Oracle MySQL 5.1.67 and earlier and 5.5.29 and earlier, and MariaDB 5.5.28a and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (mysqld crash) via a SELECT command with an UpdateXML command containing XML with a large number of unique, nested elements.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 40 days later
· 40 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.2% · top 3.6% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- 1027829 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 53372 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121202 Re: Re: [Full-disclosure] MySQL (Linux) Stack based buffer overrun PoC Zeroday (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201308-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121202 Re: Re: [Full-disclosure] MySQL (Linux) Stack based buffer overrun PoC Zeroday (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2013-1899555.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0772 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20121201 MySQL Denial of Service Zeroday PoC (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882607 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3910 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- MDVSA-2013:150 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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