CVE-2021-2471: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

October 20, 2021 (updated April 28, 2022)

Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all MySQL Connectors accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DoS) of MySQL Connectors.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-2471
www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

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