Vulnerability

CVE-2017-3318

MEDIUM 4.0

CVE-2017-3318 is a medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS v3.1 4.0). As of 2026-11-09, 11 630 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: Server: Error Handling). 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 access to critical data or complete access to all MySQL Server accessible data. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 4.0 (Confidentiality 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:H/I:N/A:N
Exploit likelihood (EPSS)
0.5% in the next 30 days (higher than 39% of CVEs)

Exposure in our data

11 630 hosts

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

Not counted: 215 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: 294 more on distribution builds that may be patched (the distribution may have backported the fix without changing the version).

5 956 more hosts had it earlier (the software version has since changed or the service is gone).

Counted 2026-11-09 04:20 UTC

By country

China CN6 597
United States US1 486
South Korea KR804
Japan JP428
Hong Kong HK298
Russia RU212
India IN197
Türkiye TR178
Brazil BR149
Taiwan TW143
Serbia RS136
Singapore SG122
Indonesia ID114
Malaysia MY88
Sweden SE66

Affected software seen

mysql 5.6.161 619
mysql 5.5.18.1772
mysql 5.6.25531
mysql 5.7.12468
mysql 5.7.16383
mysql 5.5.53357
mysql 5.6.21322
mysql 5.5.28253
mysql 5.5.3207
mysql 5.6.29202
mysql 5.7.11197
mysql 5.6.26185