Vulnerability

CVE-2017-3317

MEDIUM 4.0

CVE-2017-3317 is a medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS v3.1 4.0). As of 2026-11-06, 11 513 hosts in our data show software it affects on an open service in at least 15 countries.

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Logging). 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 unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 4.0 (Availability impacts).

Published
2017-01-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
CVSS score
4.0 CVSS v3.1
CVSS vector (v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploit likelihood (EPSS)
0.4% in the next 30 days (higher than 34% of CVEs)

Exposure in our data

11 513 hosts

Hosts whose banner shows an affected software version on a service open at their latest check.

Not counted: 227 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: 293 more on distribution builds that may be patched (the distribution may have backported the fix without changing the version).

5 926 more hosts had it earlier (the software version has since changed or the service is gone).

Counted 2026-11-06 05:20 UTC

By country

China CN6 560
United States US1 473
South Korea KR775
Japan JP428
Hong Kong HK298
Russia RU206
India IN196
Türkiye TR175
Taiwan TW143
Brazil BR139
Serbia RS135
Singapore SG123
Indonesia ID114
Malaysia MY82
Sweden SE66

Affected software seen

mysql 5.6.161 620
mysql 5.5.18.1772
mysql 5.6.25523
mysql 5.7.12465
mysql 5.7.16381
mysql 5.5.53354
mysql 5.6.21317
mysql 5.5.28250
mysql 5.5.3207
mysql 5.6.29202
mysql 5.7.11196
mysql 5.6.26183