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CVE-2007-5925

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-5925 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the InnoDB engine of MySQL versions 5.1.23-BK and earlier. An authenticated remote attacker can crash the database by performing a specific CONTAINS operation on an indexed column, triggering an assertion error within the convert_search_mode_to_innobase function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity with network accessibility, low attack complexity, requiring authentication, and resulting in a partial denial of service. While no active exploitation is reported, a proof-of-concept exploit exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.1.23_bkCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
11.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-30744 · Nov 5, 2007
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1135 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: mysql-0:4.1.20-3.RHEL4.1.el4_6.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: mysql-0:5.0.22-2.2.el5_1.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4Fixed in: mysql-0:5.0.44-2.el4s1.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-5925Low

mysql DoS in the InnoDB Engine

Nov 5, 2007

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
bugs.mysql.com / bug.php
lists.grok.org.uk / pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-November/067350.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
secunia.com / advisories/27568
secunia.com / advisories/27649
secunia.com / advisories/27823
secunia.com / advisories/28025
secunia.com / advisories/28040
secunia.com / advisories/28099
secunia.com / advisories/28108
secunia.com / advisories/28128
secunia.com / advisories/28838
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200711-25.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/38284
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11390
usn.ubuntu.com / 559-1
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00467.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00475.html
debian.org / security/2007/dsa-1413
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-1155.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-1157.html
securityfocus.com / bid/26353
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1397-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/3903