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CVE-2012-5614

33
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5614 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL versions 5.1.67 and earlier, 5.5.29 and earlier, and MariaDB 5.5.28a. An authenticated remote attacker can crash the mysqld service by executing a SELECT command with an UpdateXML function containing deeply nested XML elements. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity, as it requires authentication and only leads to a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking significant community discussion or media coverage, a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.1.0, <= 5.1.67CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.5.0, <= 5.5.29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.0.0, < 10.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
13.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-23078 · Dec 2, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1318 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mysql-0:5.1.69-1.el6_4
View patch
oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-5614Low

mysql: COM_BINLOG_DUMP crash on invalid data

Dec 1, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0772.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/7
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/53372
Not Applicable
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml
Third Party Advisory
mariadb.atlassian.net / browse/MDEV-3910
Broken LinkPatch
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2013-1899555.html
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry