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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-0639

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.6.29 and earlier and 5.7.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to Pluggable Authentication.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 10.2%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.2%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.6.29 and earlier and 5.7.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to Pluggable Authentication.

CVSS 3.0
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
10.23% probability · 96th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
redhat/enterprise linux · oracle/mysql
Source
secalert_us@oracle.com
EPSS trend
0%8%15%21 September 2026: 8.21%22 September 2026: 10.23%4 November 2026: 10.23%21 September 20264 November 2026

EPSS moved from 8.2% on 21 September 2026 to 10.2% on 4 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.