What is CVE-2012-5614?

CVE-2012-5614 is a vulnerability in Mariadb. Published 2012-12-03.

Is CVE-2012-5614 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Mariadb

CVE-2012-5614

Oracle MySQL 5.1.67 and earlier and 5.5.29 and earlier, and MariaDB 5.5.28a and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (mysqld crash) via a SELECT command with an UpdateXML command containing XML with a large number of unique, nested elements.

Published 2012-12-03 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.132 (96.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.132 · newest: 0.132 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mariadb
Oracle MySQL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 6.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 6.4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 6.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus — versions 6.4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation — versions 6.0

Public proof-of-concept exploits

Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2012-5614

References

www.securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
secunia.com/advisories/53372 (Not Applicable, third-party-advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/4 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2013-1899555.html (Vendor Advisory)
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0772.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/7 (mailing-list, Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3910 (Patch, Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-5614?: CVE-2012-5614 is a vulnerability in Mariadb. Published 2012-12-03.
Is CVE-2012-5614 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.