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CVE-2018-2818

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-2818 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL Server versions 5.5.59 and prior, 5.6.39 and prior, and 5.7.21 and prior, also impacting Canonical, Debian, and NetApp distributions. This easily exploitable flaw allows a high-privileged attacker with network access to cause a complete system hang or crash of the MySQL Server. With a CVSS 3.0 Base Score of 4.9 (Medium), its primary impact is on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.5.0, <= 5.5.59CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0362 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 3,563 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 (16)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
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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
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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
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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
View patch
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
View patch
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
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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
View patch
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
View patch
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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-2818Moderate

mysql: Server: Security: Privileges unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2018)

Apr 17, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1254
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3655
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00020.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20180419-0002
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3629-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3629-2
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3629-3
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4176
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/103824
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1040698
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry