CVE-2006-2753: MySQL

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SQL injection vulnerability in MySQL 4.1.x before 4.1.20 and 5.0.x before 5.0.22 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via crafted multibyte encodings in character sets such as SJIS, BIG5, and GBK, which are not properly handled when the mysql_real_escape function is used to escape the input.

Affected products

• MySQL MySQL: version 4.1.0 only; version 4.1.2 only; version 4.1.3 only; version 4.1.8 only; version 4.1.10 only; version 4.1.12 only; …
• Oracle MySQL: version 4.1.1 only; version 4.1.4 only; version 4.1.5 only; version 4.1.6 only; version 4.1.7 only; version 4.1.9 only; …

Published 2006-06-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.