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

EPSS: 0.010 (57.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Percona Xtrabackup
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, 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.