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CVE-2014-4287

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4287 is an unspecified vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL Server versions 5.5.38 and earlier, and 5.6.19 and earlier, as well as MariaDB and SUSE distributions. This flaw allows remote authenticated users to impact the availability of the server through vectors related to character sets. With a CVSS score of 4.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is considered a low-severity issue, requiring authentication and leading only to denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.5.0, <= 5.5.38CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.6.0, <= 5.6.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:12:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:12:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:12:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0267 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 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 0.1 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 (16)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: mariadb-1:5.5.40-1.el7_0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6Fixed in: mariadb-galera-0:5.5.40-2.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: mariadb-galera-1:5.5.40-2.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.40-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.40-10.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUSFixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.40-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUSFixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.40-10.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.40-2.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.40-10.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.40-1.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.40-10.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.40-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.40-10.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.40-1.el6
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mysql

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-4287Moderate

mysql: unspecified vulnerability related to SERVER:CHARACTER SETS (CPU October 2014)

Oct 15, 2014

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00016.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/70517
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry