# CVE-2023-21971: Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL (component: Connector/J).

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2023-04-18 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- Oracle Corporation MySQL Connectors: version range not reported

## Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL (component: Connector/J). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.32 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Connectors as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Connectors accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Connectors accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H).

## What to do

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## Related

- Browse: [MySQL](https://cve.now/tech/mysql.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2023.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2023.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230427-0007/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230427-0010/
- https://github.com/Avento/CVE-2023-21971_Analysis

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