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CVE-2009-2942

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2942 describes a vulnerability in the mysql-ocaml bindings 1.0.4 for MySQL, where the mysql_real_escape_string function inadequately handles multibyte character encodings. This flaw could enable remote attackers to exploit escaping issues. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, allowing for potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql-ocaml:mysql-ocaml:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0234 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-2942Moderate

ocaml-mysql: Missing escape function (DSA-1910-1)

Oct 15, 2009

References

secunia.com / advisories/37047
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1910
mandriva.com / security/advisories
osvdb.org / 59030