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Medium · 4.1 CVE-2023-29195 EUVD-2023-1601GHSA-pqj7-jx24-wj7w

Vitess VTAdmin users that can create shards can deny access to other functions

Published May 11, 2023 · Updated Jan 24, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
vitessio vitess < 16.0.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 2 (CBL-Mariner) vitess 16.0.2-1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go vitess.io/vitess < 0.16.2 0.16.2 GHSA-pqj7-jx24-wj7w

References