What is CVE-2022-25834?

CVE-2022-25834 is a high-severity vulnerability in Percona Xtrabackup, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2023-06-07.

How severe is CVE-2022-25834?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

RCE in Percona Xtrabackup

CVE-2022-25834

In Percona XtraBackup (PXB) through 2.2.24 and 3.x through 8.0.27-19, a crafted filename on the local file system could trigger unexpected command shell execution of arbitrary commands.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2023-06-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (37.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 37th percentile — 37.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Percona Xtrabackup

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.4/index.html (Vendor Advisory)
docs.percona.com/percona-xtrabackup/8.0/release-notes/8.0/8.0.32-26.0.html (Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-25834?: CVE-2022-25834 is a high-severity vulnerability in Percona Xtrabackup, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2023-06-07.
How severe is CVE-2022-25834?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.