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CVE-2019-2991

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-2991 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL Server versions 8.0.17 and prior, specifically within the Optimizer component. A highly privileged attacker with network access can exploit this vulnerability to cause a complete denial of service (DoS) by crashing the server, and also gain unauthorized update, insert, or delete access to some data. The CVSS 3.0 base score is 5.5, indicating low integrity impact and high availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:active_iq_unified_manager:-:*:*:*:*:vmware_vsphere:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:active_iq_unified_manager:-:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:oncommand_insight:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:oncommand_workflow_automation:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0247 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 3,566 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 (7)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: mysql:8.0-8020020200828111438.4cda2c84
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: mysql:8.0-8000020200828111808.f8e95b4e
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update SupportFixed in: mysql:8.0-8010020200828111645.c27ad7f8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-mysql80-mysql-0:8.0.21-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql80-mysql-0:8.0.21-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-mysql80-mysql-0:8.0.21-1.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-2991Moderate

mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Oct 2019)

Oct 15, 2019

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6DTUCXX5XXPNPFV2PHP6IESGTCFMZOFP
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7X5D3O4TOQ57KL5FLQEXH2JB2UQYHCUZ
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MKCJLNRK6RHFAHV7ZFD3XO7HNSBU3XOL
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20191017-0002
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4195-1
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
PatchVendor Advisory