RULE(RULE ID:1605178)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2021-10-29
Rule Name: MySQL JDBC XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2021-2471)
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Rule Protection Details
Description: There is a vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL (component: Connector/J). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.26 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all MySQL Connectors accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Connectors.
Impact: An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to have unspecified effect.
Affected OS: Windows, Linux, Others
Reference: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
Solutions
The vendor has released upgrade patches to fix vulnerabilities, please visit:
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html