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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2025-50078

Severity Medium
Score 6.5/10

Summary

A vulnerability has been reported in Server DML component of MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL. Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.0 through 8.0.42, 8.4.0 through 8.4.5 and 9.0.0 through 9.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete Denial-of-Service) of MySQL Server.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

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.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published