What is CVE-2022-26944?

CVE-2022-26944 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Percona Xtrabackup. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-06-02.

How severe is CVE-2022-26944?

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

Vulnerability in Percona Xtrabackup

CVE-2022-26944

Percona XtraBackup 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. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-10997.

EPSS: 0.009 (56.3th 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 — versions 2.4.20
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (Permissions Required, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-26944?: CVE-2022-26944 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Percona Xtrabackup. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-06-02.
How severe is CVE-2022-26944?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.