What is CVE-2020-10997?

CVE-2020-10997 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Percona Xtrabackup, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-04-27.

How severe is CVE-2020-10997?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Percona Xtrabackup

CVE-2020-10997

Percona XtraBackup before 2.4.20 unintentionally writes the command line to any resulting backup file output. This may include sensitive arguments passed at run time. In addition, when --history is passed at run time, this command line is also written to the PERCONA_SCHEMA.xtrabackup_history table.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2020-04-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (59.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 60th percentile — 59.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Percona Xtrabackup

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-2142 (Vendor Advisory)
www.percona.com/blog/2020/04/16/cve-2020-10997-percona-xtrabackup-information-d… (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-10997?: CVE-2020-10997 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Percona Xtrabackup, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-04-27.
How severe is CVE-2020-10997?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.