CVE-2016-5612

23

FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5612 is an unspecified vulnerability impacting Oracle MySQL versions 5.5.50 and earlier, 5.6.31 and earlier, and 5.7.13 and earlier, as well as MariaDB and Red Hat products. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (availability impact) through DML-related vectors. 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

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		>= 5.5.0, <= 5.5.50CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql::::::::
		>= 5.6.0, <= 5.6.31CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql::::::::
		>= 5.7.0, <= 5.7.13CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql::::::::
		>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.51CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb::::::::
		>= 10.0.0, < 10.0.27CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

3.36%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

87.5%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0336 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 21,957 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 (36)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.53-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.52-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.53-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-mariadb100-mariadb-1:10.0.28-5.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.32-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.52-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.53-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.32-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.52-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.53-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb100-mariadb-1:10.0.28-5.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb100-mariadb-1:10.0.28-5.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: mariadb-1:5.5.52-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.32-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.52-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.53-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-mariadb100-mariadb-1:10.0.28-5.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.32-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.52-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: mariadb55-mariadb-0:5.5.53-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.32-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: mysql55-mysql-0:5.5.52-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb100-mariadb-1:10.0.28-5.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.32-1.el7

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mysql

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-mariadb101-mariadb

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

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

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)Fixed in: mariadb-galera

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata)Fixed in: mariadb-galera

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike)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 5Fixed in: mysql55-mysql

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty)Fixed in: mariadb-galera

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 OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)Fixed in: mariadb-galera

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5612Moderate

mysql: unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent: Server: DML (CPU October 2016)

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1601.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2130.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2131.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2595.html

Third Party Advisory

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2927.html

Third Party Advisory

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-01

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html

PatchVendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/93630

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1037050

Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry