Vulnerability
CVE-2016-0546
CVE-2016-0546 is a high-severity vulnerability (CVSS v2 7.2). As of 2026-10-11, 7 452 hosts in our data show software it affects on an open service in at least 15 countries.
Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.5.46 and earlier, 5.6.27 and earlier, and 5.7.9 and MariaDB before 5.5.47, 10.0.x before 10.0.23, and 10.1.x before 10.1.10 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Client. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that these are multiple buffer overflows in the mysqlshow tool that allow remote database servers to have unspecified impact via a long table or database name.
- Published
- 2016-01-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- CVSS score
- 7.2 CVSS v2
- CVSS vector (v2)
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Exploit likelihood (EPSS)
- 0.6% in the next 30 days (higher than 47% of CVEs)
Exposure in our data
7 452 hosts
Hosts whose banner shows an affected software version on a service open at their latest check.
Not counted: 129 hosts with this CVE only from an older observation.
Not counted: 2 hosts where the software version is too vague to tell (only a major release).
Not counted: 104 more on distribution builds that may be patched (the distribution may have backported the fix without changing the version).
153 more hosts had it earlier (the software version has since changed or the service is gone).
Counted 2026-10-11 04:20 UTC
By country
| China CN | 4 614 |
| United States US | 686 |
| South Korea KR | 543 |
| Hong Kong HK | 202 |
| India IN | 174 |
| Türkiye TR | 137 |
| Russia RU | 136 |
| Taiwan TW | 120 |
| Japan JP | 85 |
| Singapore SG | 76 |
| Indonesia ID | 73 |
| Brazil BR | 70 |
| Malaysia MY | 60 |
| Serbia RS | 53 |
| Sweden SE | 51 |
Affected software seen
| mysql 5.6.16 | 1 575 |
| mysql 5.5.18.1 | 770 |
| mysql 5.6.25 | 515 |
| mysql 5.6.21 | 301 |
| mysql 5.5.28 | 238 |
| mysql 5.6.26 | 172 |
| mysql 5.6.17 | 164 |
| mysql 5.5.30 | 159 |
| mysql 5.5.40 | 158 |
| mysql 5.6.24 | 156 |
| mysql 5.6.14 | 114 |
| mysql 5.5.37 | 110 |