CVE-2018-2787

20

FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-2787 is a vulnerability in the InnoDB subcomponent of MySQL Server, affecting versions 5.6.39 and prior, and 5.7.21 and prior, including various distributions of MariaDB and Ubuntu Linux. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) allows a high-privileged attacker with network access to cause a complete denial of service (crash) or unauthorized data modification (insert, update, delete) on the MySQL Server. While easily exploitable, there is no known 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
		>= 5.6.0, <= 5.6.39CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql::::::::
		>= 5.7.0, <= 5.7.21CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql::::::::
		14.04CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts:::
		16.04CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04::::lts:::
		17.10CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

1.2

Impact Score

4.2

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

2.59%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

83.7%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0259 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 3,565 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (26)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.40-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-mysql57-mysql-0:5.7.24-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-mariadb102-galera-0:25.3.25-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-mariadb102-mariadb-1:10.2.22-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.40-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql57-mysql-0:5.7.24-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.40-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-mysql57-mysql-0:5.7.24-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-mariadb102-galera-0:25.3.25-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-mariadb102-mariadb-1:10.2.22-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.40-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql57-mysql-0:5.7.24-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.40-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql57-mysql-0:5.7.24-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb102-galera-0:25.3.25-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb102-mariadb-1:10.2.22-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql56-mysql-0:5.6.40-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql57-mysql-0:5.7.24-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb102-galera-0:25.3.25-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb102-mariadb-1:10.2.22-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql57-mysql-0:5.7.24-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb102-galera-0:25.3.25-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb102-mariadb-1:10.2.22-1.el7

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-mariadb100-mariadb

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-2787Moderate

mysql: InnoDB unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2018)

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1254

Third Party Advisory

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3655

Third Party Advisory

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:1258

Third Party Advisory

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00015.html

Third Party Advisory

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201908-24

Third Party Advisory

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20180419-0002

Third Party Advisory

usn.ubuntu.com / 3629-1

Third Party Advisory

usn.ubuntu.com / 3629-3

Third Party Advisory

debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4341

Third Party Advisory

oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html

PatchVendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/103804

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1040698

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry