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CVE-2013-5908

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-5908 is an unspecified vulnerability within the Error Handling component of Oracle MySQL Server versions 5.1.72 and earlier, 5.5.34 and earlier, and 5.6.14 and earlier, also affecting canonical, debian, mariadb, and redhat distributions. This vulnerability carries a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a remote attack vector with high access complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily impacting availability with a partial denial of service. There is 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
>= 5.1.0, <= 5.1.72CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.5.0, <= 5.5.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.6.0, <= 5.6.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0467 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 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 (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.36-2.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mysql-0:5.1.73-3.el6_5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL-6Fixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.36-1.1.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL-6Fixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.35-1.1.el6
View patch
oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-5908Low

mysql: unspecified vulnerability related to Error Handling DoS (CPU Jan 2014)

Jan 14, 2014

References

kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
Third Party Advisory
osvdb.org / 102078
Broken LinkThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0164.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0173.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0186.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0189.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/56491
Not Applicable
secunia.com / advisories/56541
Not Applicable
secunia.com / advisories/56580
Not Applicable
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201409-04.xml
Third Party Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/90389
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-2086-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2845
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2848
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014-1972949.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/64758
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/64896
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry