CVE-2013-1861
MariaDB 5.5.x before 5.5.30, 5.3.x before 5.3.13, 5.2.x before 5.2.15, and 5.1.x before 5.1.68, and Oracle MySQL 5.1.69 and earlier,…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 18.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
MariaDB 5.5.x before 5.5.30, 5.3.x before 5.3.13, 5.2.x before 5.2.15, and 5.1.x before 5.1.68, and Oracle MySQL 5.1.69 and earlier, 5.5.31 and earlier, and 5.6.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted geometry feature that specifies a large number of points, which is not properly handled when processing the binary representation of this feature, related to a numeric calculation error.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- MySQL / MariaDB - Geometry Query Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 38392dos, linuxpublished 7 Mar 2013Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 37 days later
· 37 days later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 18.8% · top 2.7% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References17
- 54300 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-2818 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130513 CVE-2013-1861 for MySQL/MariaDB: geometry query crashes mysqld (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujuly2013-1899826.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- mysql-mariadb-cve20131861-dos(82895) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4252 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 52639 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1335 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 58511 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-1909-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2013:1390 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [Commits] 20130305 Rev 3682: TODO-424 geometry query crashes server. in file:///home/hf/wmar/todo-424/ (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1410 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 91415 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919247 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2013:1529 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-201409-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-1864 (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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