The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4441-1 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to     fix these issues.

    MySQL has been updated to 8.0.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS have been     updated to MySQL 5.7.31.

    In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly     incompatible changes.

    Please see the following for more information:

    https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-31.html

    https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-21.html

    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : MySQL vulnerabilities (USN-4441-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 139181

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.7 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.6 Oct 21, 2023, 9:06 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2020-14697") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210906