FKIE_CVE-2023-29195

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-05-11 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:49
Severity
4.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
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.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/9dcbd7de3180f47e94f54989fb5c66daea00c920Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/vitessio/vitess/issues/12842Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/12843Issue Tracking, Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v16.0.2Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/vitessio/vitess/security/advisories/GHSA-pqj7-jx24-wj7wMitigation, Vendor Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://pkg.go.dev/vitess.io/vitess@v0.16.2Product
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/9dcbd7de3180f47e94f54989fb5c66daea00c920Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/issues/12842Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/12843Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v16.0.2Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/security/advisories/GHSA-pqj7-jx24-wj7wMitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://pkg.go.dev/vitess.io/vitess@v0.16.2Product
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linuxfoundation vitess *
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