CVE-2024-21176

Summary

CVE-2024-21176 is a vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL Server version 8.4.0 and prior. This issue lies in the thread pooling component and can be exploited by a low-privileged attacker with network access, using multiple protocols. The exploitation of this difficulty-to-exploit vulnerability may result in a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, causing the MySQL Server to hang or crash repeatedly. The CVSS Base Score is 5.3, with an impact on availability.

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