CVE-2000-0045
MySQL allows local users to modify passwords for arbitrary MySQL users via the GRANT privilege.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 7.0%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
MySQL allows local users to modify passwords for arbitrary MySQL users via the GRANT privilege.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 6.99% probability · 94th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 15 February 2000
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- oracle/mysql
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 7.0% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.