What is CVE-2015-1027?

CVE-2015-1027 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Percona Toolkit, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2017-09-29.

How severe is CVE-2015-1027?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Percona Toolkit

CVE-2015-1027

The version checking subroutine in percona-toolkit before 2.2.13 and xtrabackup before 2.2.9 was vulnerable to silent HTTP downgrade attacks and Man In The Middle attacks in which the server response could be modified to allow the attacker to respond with modified command payload and have the client return additional running configuration information leading to an information disclosure of running configuration of MySQL.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.012 (64.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Percona Toolkit
Percona Xtrabackup
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-1027?: CVE-2015-1027 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Percona Toolkit, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2017-09-29.
How severe is CVE-2015-1027?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.