Vulnerability in Percona Monitoring And Management
CVE-2026-25212
An issue was discovered in Percona PMM before 3.7. Because an internal database user retains specific superuser privileges, an attacker with pmm-admin rights can abuse the "Add data source" feature to break out of the database context and execute shell commands on the underlying operating system.
EPSS: 0.003 (21.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.9 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Percona Monitoring_and_management
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (Product)
- cve@mitre.org (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-25212?
- CVE-2026-25212 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Percona Monitoring And Management, classified under CWE-250. CVSS score: 9.9/10. Published 2026-04-02.
- How severe is CVE-2026-25212?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.9 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2026-25212 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.