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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-21170

Medium
6.3/10

Summary

Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL (component: Connector/Python). An easily exploitable vulnerability allows a low-privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized updates, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Connectors accessible data, as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Connectors accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial Denial of Service (partial DOS) of MySQL Connectors. This issue affects the package mysql-connector-python versions through 8.4.0.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

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