Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain low-privileged MySQL credentials
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DeliveryConnect over supported network protocol
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ExploitSend crafted input to pluggable auth
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ExecutionTrigger hang or repeatable crash
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ImpactComplete denial of service
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Access control enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires a valid low-privileged MySQL account (CVSS PR:L) with network reachability to the database over one of its supported protocols; the vulnerable code lies in the Server: Pluggable Auth component, so the attack exercises the server's authentication plugin handling. No user interaction is needed (UI:N) and the attack is of low complexity (AC:L), so any authenticated user - including untrusted application or tenant credentials - can trigger it against default configurations. Limiting factors: the attacker must already authenticate (this is not pre-auth/unauthenticated), impact is confined to availability (no data read or modification), and only the listed MySQL Server versions (8.4.0-8.4.12, 9.7.0-9.7.3, 26.7.0-26.7.1) and MySQL Cluster versions (8.0.0-8.0.49, 8.4.0-8.4.12, 9.7.0-9.7.3, 26.7.0-26.7.1) are affected. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity availability-only flaw (CVSS 3.1 6.5, AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) in the Server: Pluggable Auth component of Oracle MySQL Server and MySQL Cluster. The CVSS signals are internally consistent and point to an easily-exploitable, network-reachable denial-of-service: low attack complexity and no user interaction, but PR:L means a valid (low-privileged) database account is required, which meaningfully narrows the attacker population versus a pre-auth bug. Impact is limited strictly to availability (C:N/I:N) - a hang or repeatable crash producing complete DoS - with no data disclosure or integrity loss. No EPSS score was supplied in the input, there is no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit was referenced, so there is no evidence of active or widespread exploitation: this reads as a patch-in-normal-cycle issue rather than an emergency. The practical priority is driven almost entirely by MySQL's enormous deployment footprint and the fact that any authenticated user - including low-trust application or tenant accounts - could crash the server, which matters most for multi-tenant or internet-adjacent database tiers. Oracle is the sole source; independent corroboration (CWE, EPSS, POC) is absent. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who already holds a low-privileged MySQL account - for example a limited application or tenant user, or a credential obtained via reuse - connects to the server over one of its supported network protocols and sends crafted input that exercises the pluggable authentication code path. This triggers a hang or repeatable crash, taking the MySQL Server or Cluster node fully offline (complete DoS). No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, and the attack requires valid authentication (PR:L) but no user interaction. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 21, 2026
A low-privileged authenticated attacker with network access can repeatedly crash or hang the MySQL Server or MySQL Cluster service by abusing flaw handling in the Server: Pluggable Auth component, yielding complete denial of service against the database. Affected releases are MySQL Server 8.4.0-8.4.12, 9.7.0-9.7.3 and 26.7.0-26.7.1, plus MySQL Cluster 8.0.0-8.0.49, 8.4.0-8.4.12, 9.7.0-9.7.3 and 26.7.0-26.7.1, as documented in the Oracle Critical Patch Update for October 2026. The CVSS 3.1 score is 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H); no public exploit code and no CISA KEV entry are associated with this CVE at time of analysis, and EPSS data was not provided.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: apply the MySQL Server and MySQL Cluster fixes published in the Oracle Critical Patch Update for October 2026 (https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2026.html), upgrading MySQL Server to a release outside 8.4.0-8.4.12, 9.7.0-9.7.3 and 26.7.0-26.7.1, and MySQL Cluster to a release outside 8.0.0-8.0.49, 8.4.0-8.4.12, 9.7.0-9.7.3 and 26.7.0-26.7.1, as specified in that advisory. Because exploitation requires only a valid low-privileged account (PR:L, no user interaction), the highest-value compensating controls are credential and account hygiene: audit and remove unused database accounts, avoid granting application or tenant accounts more than their minimum privileges, and segregate untrusted tenants onto separate instances so a single account cannot deny service to unrelated workloads (trade-off: added instance management overhead). Where the deployment does not need non-native authentication, restrict the set of loaded authentication plugins to only those in use and remove unused plugin libraries; disallowing unneeded plugins shrinks the attack surface in the affected component (trade-off: requires a server restart and may break clients relying on those plugins). Front-end throttling of repeated failed or malformed authentication handshakes via a proxy or connection-rate limits can raise the cost of repeatable crash attempts (trade-off: may delay legitimate connection storms and adds a hop). Ensure crash/restart supervision (systemd restart policies, MHA/InnoDB Cluster failover) is in place to shorten outages from any successful hang or crash, accepting that failover may cause brief connection loss and, for Cluster, node rejoins. Monitor MySQL error logs and abrupt connection terminations for anomalous patterns from low-privileged accounts as a detection measure.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw resides in the pluggable authentication subsystem of MySQL Server - the framework that lets the server delegate credential verification to loadable authentication plugins (for example, the native password, sha256_password, caching_sha2_password, LDAP, Kerberos or PAM-style plugins) and to multi-factor authentication chains. Because plugin selection and handshake processing occurs after a session is established but is driven by client-supplied protocol data, a user who already holds valid low-privileged credentials can craft protocol interactions that drive the plugin handling path into a state that hangs or crashes the server process rather than failing cleanly. The input does not supply a CWE mapping, but the observed impact (complete, repeatable availability loss with no confidentiality or integrity effect, single scope, no user interaction) is characteristic of an uncontrolled resource-consumption or unhandled-exception/denial-of-service condition in the authentication code path. Scope is unchanged: only the database service itself is impaired, but because MySQL and MySQL Cluster are frequently shared backends, a single low-privileged tenant or application account can take down availability for every co-hosted workload. Note that MySQL Cluster (NDB) inherits the same server-side authentication component, which explains the parallel version ranges in the CPE/advisory data.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Network-reachable with low complexity and no interaction, but a low-privileged account is required (PR:L); impact is availability-only (A:H), with no confidentiality or integrity effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (oracle).
CVSS VectorVendor: oracle
DescriptionCVE.org
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server, MySQL Cluster product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Pluggable Auth). Supported versions that are affected are MySQL Server: 8.4.0-8.4.12, 9.7.0-9.7.3, 26.7.0-26.7.1; MySQL Cluster: 8.0.0-8.0.49, 8.4.0-8.4.12, 9.7.0-9.7.3 and 26.7.0-26.7.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server, MySQL Cluster. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server, MySQL Cluster. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
EUVD-2026-106129
GHSA-x76q-hxjf-2xgj
NVD
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EPSS
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