CVE-2023-29195: medium-severity vulnerability in vitessio vitess
Vitess VTAdmin users that can create shards can deny access to other functions
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.1epss 1.0%
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL through generalized sharding. Prior to version 16.0.2, users can either intentionally or inadvertently create a shard containing `/` characters from VTAdmin such that from that point on, anyone who tries to create a new shard from VTAdmin will receive an error. Attempting to view the keyspace(s) will also no longer work. Creating a shard using `vtctldclient` does not have the same problem because the CLI validates the input correctly. Version 16.0.2, corresponding to version 0.16.2 of the `go` module, contains a patch for this issue. Some workarounds are available. Always use `vtctldclient` to create shards, instead of using VTAdmin; disable creating shards from VTAdmin using RBAC; and/or delete the topology record for the offending shard using the client for your topology server.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
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References
https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/9dcbd7de3180f47e94f54989fb5c66daea00c920https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/issues/12842https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/12843https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v16.0.2https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/security/advisories/GHSA-pqj7-jx24-wj7whttps://pkg.go.dev/vitess.io/vitess@v0.16.2