Security advisory

{
  "id": "0042fb74cc6a51225c0e7950c30e02a66897e77976d72917b276ec87fe3333b1",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-2573",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-2573",
    "summary": "Vulnerability in the MySQL Client product of Oracle MySQL (component: C API). Supported versions that are affected are 5.7.28 and prior and 8.0.18 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Client. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Client. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.9 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-2573",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-2573",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-2573"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "b2f3214ae2b4a250d3b8a7b7a61037f89b5dc9b1"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "270fd3411e3d671a73ed9725940a30080f59ce6d"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "91a17cedb1ee880fe7915fb14cfd74c04e8d6588"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "5.7.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "5.7.28"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "8.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "8.0.18"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "mysql-cluster-8.0.18",
            "mysql-8.0.18",
            "mysql-5.7.28",
            "mysql-5.1.4",
            "mysql-4.0.4",
            "mysql-4.0.2",
            "mysql-3.23.36",
            "mysql-3.23.33",
            "mysql-3.23.32",
            "mysql-3.23.31",
            "mysql-3.23.30-gamma",
            "mysql-3.23.28-gamma",
            "mysql-3.23.22-beta"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-2573.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:40.420917298Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-27",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200122-0002/",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4250-1/",
        "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "18.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "19.10"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "19.10"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-2573",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 434916,
  "published_at": "2020-01-15T17:15:18.52+00:00"
}