CVE-2018-2562

CVE-2018-2562 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL Server versions 5.5.58 and prior, 5.6.38 and prior, and 5.7.19 and prior, as well as distributions from Canonical, Debian, MariaDB, NetApp, and Red Hat. This easily exploitable flaw allows a low-privileged attacker with network access to cause a complete denial of service (DoS) by crashing the server, and also gain unauthorized update, insert, or delete access to some data. With a CVSS 3.0 score of 7.1, the primary impacts are on integrity and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.