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CVE-2024-21177

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-21177 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL Server versions 8.0.37 and prior, and 8.4.0 and prior, specifically within the Optimizer component. A low-privileged attacker with network access can easily exploit this vulnerability to cause a complete and repeatable crash of the MySQL Server. With a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.5 (Medium), the primary impact is high availability loss. 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
<= 7.5.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_cluster:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.6.0, <= 7.6.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_cluster:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_cluster:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.1.0, <= 8.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_cluster:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 8.0.37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0076 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 21,977 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 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: mysql8.0
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: mysql:8.0/mysql
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: mysql

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2024-21177Moderate

mysql: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2024)

Jul 16, 2024

References

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20240801-0001
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujul2024.html
PatchVendor Advisory