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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2024-32886 json

Vitess vulnerable to infinite memory consumption and vtgate crash

published 2024-05-08 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2024-1448 , GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 , GO-2024-2826

cvss
4.9
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 55%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/vitessio/vitess 17.0.7, 18.0.5, 19.0.4
  • go vitess.io/vitess 0.17.7, 0.18.5, 0.19.4
  • linuxfoundation vitess 17.0.7, 18.0.5, 19.0.4
  • vitess Azure Linux 3.0 19.0.4-1
  • vitess CBL-Mariner 2.0 17.0.7-1

azure linux advisories AZL-40360AZL-40493

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-2024-32886 updated cvss 4.9

vitess: infinite loop that leads to DoS

  • 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
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/vitessio/vitess
>=19.0.0, <19.0.4
>=18.0.0, <18.0.5
<17.0.7
19.0.4
18.0.5
17.0.7
go vitess.io/vitess
<0.17.7
>=0.18.0, <0.18.5
>=0.19.0, <0.19.4
0.17.7
0.18.5
0.19.4

Affected products

  • vitessio vitess

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

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