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CVE-2016-8318

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-8318 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL Server versions 5.6.34 and earlier, and 5.7.16 and earlier, specifically within the Security: Encryption subcomponent. This easily exploitable flaw allows a low-privileged attacker with network access to cause a complete denial of service (DoS) through repeated crashes of the MySQL Server. While requiring human interaction from a non-attacker, successful exploitation can significantly impact other products. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.6.0, <= 5.6.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.7.0, <= 5.7.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.8MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0135 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 15,225 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 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 (1)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-8318Moderate

mysql: Server: Security: Encryption unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2017)

Jan 18, 2017

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201702-17
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95580
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037640
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry