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CVE-2024-20974

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-20974 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL Server versions 8.0.35 and prior, and 8.2.0 and prior, specifically within the Optimizer component. This easily exploitable flaw allows a high-privileged attacker with network access to cause a complete system hang or crash. With a CVSS 3.1 score of 4.9 (Medium), its impact is limited to availability, with no confidentiality or integrity compromise. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_server:8.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_server:8.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/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
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0088 is in the 59th 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 (6)

denopatch availablevia llm_extracted
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keraspatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: mysql:8.0-8090020240126173013.a75119d5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: mysql-0:8.0.36-1.el9_3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-mysql80-mysql-0:8.0.36-1.el7
View patch
oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (3)

denollm-deno-b67a3af2ce0be075CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.0 SP 9 Security Updates

Jun 17, 2024
kerasllm-keras-7d8c31fee70361dcCRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.0 SP 9 Security Updates

Jun 17, 2024
redhatCVE-2024-20974Moderate

mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2024)

Jan 16, 2024

References

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20240201-0003
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujan2024.html
Vendor Advisory