CVE-2009-0819: MySQL

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 10.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sql/item_xmlfunc.cc in MySQL 5.1 before 5.1.32 and 6.0 before 6.0.10 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via "an XPath expression employing a scalar expression as a FilterExpr with ExtractValue() or UpdateXML()," which triggers an assertion failure.

Affected products

• MySQL MySQL: up to and including 5.1.32-bzr; version 5.1.23 only; version 5.1.31 only; version 6.0.9 only; version 6.0.10-bzr only
• Oracle MySQL: version 5.1 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 5.1.2 only; version 5.1.3 only; version 5.1.10 only; version 5.1.11 only; …

Published 2009-03-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.