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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.1

CVE-2023-29194 json

vitess allows users to create keyspaces that can deny access to already existing keyspaces

published 2023-04-11 3 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-735r-hv67-g38f , GO-2023-1717 , EUVD-2023-1221

cvss
4.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 56%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. Users can either intentionally or inadvertently create a keyspace containing `/` characters such that from that point on, anyone who tries to view keyspaces from VTAdmin will receive an error. Trying to list all the keyspaces using `vtctldclient GetKeyspaces` will also return an error. Note that all other keyspaces can still be administered using the CLI (vtctldclient). This issue is fixed in version 16.0.1. As a workaround, delete the offending keyspace using a CLI client (vtctldclient).

Patch / fix

  • go vitess.io/vitess 0.16.1
  • linuxfoundation vitess 16.0.1
  • vitess CBL-Mariner 2.0 16.0.2-1

azure linux advisories AZL-26295

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-29194 updated cvss 4.0

vitess: Users that can create keyspaces can deny access to already existing keyspaces

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 2.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 4.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go vitess.io/vitess
<0.16.1
0.16.1

Affected products

  • vitessio vitess

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-703 Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions

References

Sources

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