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Medium · 4.1 CVE-2025-8865 EUVD-2025-24148GHSA-h268-g7j5-rm2g

The YugabyteDB tablet server contains a flaw in its YCQL query handling that can trigger a null pointer dereference when processing certain…

Published Aug 11, 2025 · Updated Aug 11, 2025 · Assigned by Yugabyte

Description

The YugabyteDB tablet server contains a flaw in its YCQL query handling that can trigger a null pointer dereference when processing certain malformed inputs. An authenticated attacker could exploit this issue to crash the YCQL tablet server, resulting in a denial of service.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
YugabyteDB YugabyteDB 2024.1.0.0 – < 2024.1.3.0, 2024.2.0.0 – < 2024.2.2.5, 2.20.0.0 – < 2.20.9.0 2024.1.3.0

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