CVE-2024-21129

Summary

CVE-2024-21129 is a serious vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL Server versions 8.0.37 and prior, as well as 8.4.0 and prior. This issue lies within the DDL component and can be exploited by high privileged attackers with network access, allowing them to cause a hang or frequent crashes of MySQL Server, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. The vulnerability has been assigned a base score of 4.9 in CVSS 3.1, indicating a high level of availability impact. Attackers can leverage multiple protocols to exploit this easily exploitable vulnerability.

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