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CVE-2010-3681

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-3681 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL versions 5.1 prior to 5.1.49 and 5.5 prior to 5.5.5. An authenticated remote attacker can crash the mysqld daemon by manipulating the HANDLER interface to perform alternating reads from two indexes on a table, triggering an assertion failure. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity, as it requires authentication and only results in a partial denial of service. While not actively exploited in the wild, an ExploitDB entry exists (EDB-34520), and there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.1.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.1.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.1.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.1.34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
12.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-34520 · Aug 20, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1223 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: mysql-0:4.1.22-2.el4_8.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: mysql-0:5.0.77-4.el5_5.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mysql-0:5.1.52-1.el6_0.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-3681Moderate

MySQL: mysqld DoS (assertion failure) by alternate reads from two indexes on a table using the HANDLER interface (MySQL bug #54007)

Jul 9, 2010

References

bugs.mysql.com / bug.php
ExploitPatch
dev.mysql.com / doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-49.html
dev.mysql.com / doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-5.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00005.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/42875
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42936
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/64685
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2143
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/09/28/10
ExploitPatch
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0824.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0825.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-0164.html
securityfocus.com / bid/42633
turbolinux.co.jp / security/2011/TLSA-2011-3j.txt
Vendor Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1017-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1397-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0105
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0133
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0170
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0345
Vendor Advisory