CVE-2016-0597

17

FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-0597 is an unspecified vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL versions 5.5.46 and earlier, 5.6.27 and earlier, and 5.7.9, as well as MariaDB versions before 5.5.47, 10.0.x before 10.0.23, and 10.1.x before 10.1.10, related to the Optimizer component. This vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to impact system availability. With a CVSS score of 4.0, it is considered a low-severity issue, requiring authentication for exploitation and only leading to a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		6.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:::::::*
		7.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:::::::*
		11.3CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:::::::*
		7CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:7:::::::*
		42.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:::::::*

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

4.30%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

90.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0430 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 21,954 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 (32)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: mariadb-1:5.5.47-1.el7_2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.30-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-mariadb100-mariadb-1:10.0.25-4.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.50-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.49-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.30-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb100-mariadb-1:10.0.25-4.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.50-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.49-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.30-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb100-mariadb-1:10.0.25-4.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.50-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.49-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.30-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-mariadb100-mariadb-1:10.0.25-4.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.50-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.49-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.30-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb100-mariadb-1:10.0.25-4.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.50-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.49-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.50-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.49-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.30-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb100-mariadb-1:10.0.25-4.el7

oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: mysql55-mysql

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mysql

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse)Fixed in: mariadb-galera

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno)Fixed in: mariadb-galera

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo)Fixed in: mariadb-galera

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-0597Moderate

mysql: unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent: Server: Optimizer (CPU January 2016)

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00015.html

Third Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00016.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00033.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00034.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00051.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00053.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0534.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0705.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1480.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1481.html

Third Party Advisory

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016:1132

Third Party Advisory

mariadb.com / kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10110-release-notes

Vendor Advisory

mariadb.com / kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-5547-release-notes

Vendor Advisory

mariadb.com / kb/en/mdb-10023-rn

Vendor Advisory

debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3453

PatchThird Party Advisory

debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3459

Third Party Advisory

oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

Vendor Advisory

oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html

Vendor Advisory

oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

Vendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/81151

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1034708

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2881-1

Third Party Advisory