Vitess vulnerable to infinite memory consumption and vtgate crash
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.9epss 0.8%
exploitation probability
0.8%top 46% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. When executing the following simple query, the `vtgate` will go into an endless loop that also keeps consuming memory and eventually will run out of memory. This vulnerability is fixed in 19.0.4, 18.0.5, and 17.0.7.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
vitessio · vitessReferences
https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/8f6cfaaa643a08dc111395a75a2d250ee746cfa8/go/mysql/collations/charset/convert.go#L73-L79https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/8f6cfaaa643a08dc111395a75a2d250ee746cfa8/go/mysql/collations/charset/unicode/utf16.go#L69-L71https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/2fd5ba1dbf6e9b32fdfdaf869d130066b1b5c0dfhttps://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/9df4b66550e46b5d7079e21ed0e1b0f49f92b055https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/c46dc5b6a4329a10589ca928392218d96031ac8dhttps://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/d438adf7e34a6cf00fe441db80842ec669a99202https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/security/advisories/GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2