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    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-ntdx-3evm-vkcw",
    "summary": "Privilege Escalation\nEasily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where MySQL Connectors executes to compromise MySQL Connectors.",
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