CVE-2017-3291

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Published 2017-01-27 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.3

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: Packaging). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.53 and earlier, 5.6.34 and earlier and 5.7.16 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where MySQL Server executes to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of MySQL Server. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 6.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

63%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status
sles		affected
debian	8.0	affected
rhel	7.0	affected
rhel	7.4	affected
rhel	7.5	affected
rhel	7.6	affected
rhel	7.7	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
oracle	mysql	`{"startIncluding":"5.5.0","endIncluding":"5.5.53"}`
mariadb	mariadb	`{"startIncluding":"5.5.0","endExcluding":"5.5.54"}`	`5.5.54`
oracle	mysql	`{"startIncluding":"5.6.0","endIncluding":"5.6.34"}`
oracle	mysql	`{"startIncluding":"5.7.0","endIncluding":"5.7.16"}`
mariadb	mariadb	`{"startIncluding":"10.0.0","endExcluding":"10.0.29"}`	`10.0.29`
mariadb	mariadb	`{"startIncluding":"10.1.0","endExcluding":"10.1.21"}`	`10.1.21`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.