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CVE-2007-1420

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-1420 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting MySQL 5.x versions prior to 5.0.36. A local attacker can crash the database by crafting specific information_schema subselect queries with an ORDER BY clause, leading to a NULL dereference. With a CVSS score of 2.1, this vulnerability is considered low severity, requiring local access and resulting only in a denial of service. While an ExploitDB entry exists, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.0.33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-29724 · Mar 9, 2007
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0098 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: mysql-0:5.0.45-7.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-1420Low

Single MySQL worker can be crashed (NULL deref) with certain SELECT statements

Mar 9, 2007

References

bugs.mysql.com / bug.php
dev.mysql.com / doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-36.html
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24483
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24609
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25196
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25389
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25946
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/30351
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200705-11.xml
securityreason.com / securityalert/2413
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1127
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9530
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0364.html
Vendor Advisory
sec-consult.com / 284.html
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/462339/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/22900
ExploitPatch
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-440-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/0908
Vendor Advisory