A year ago, I blogged about An Unprivileged User can Crash your MySQL Server. At the time, I presented how to protect yourself against this problem without explaining how to generate a crash. In this post, I am revisiting this vulnerability, not giving the exploit yet, but presenting the fix. Also, because the default configuration of Group Replication in 5.7 is still vulnerable
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Yes, your read the title correctly: an unprivileged user can crash your MySQL Server. This applies for the default configuration of MySQL 8.0.21 (and it is probably the case for all MySQL 8 GA versions). Depending on your configuration, it might also be the case for MySQL 5.7. This needs malicious intent and a lot of determination, so no need to panic as this will not happen by
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