CVE-2020-10997

Publication date 27 April 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Percona XtraBackup before 2.4.20 unintentionally writes the command line to any resulting backup file output. This may include sensitive arguments passed at run time. In addition, when --history is passed at run time, this command line is also written to the PERCONA_SCHEMA.xtrabackup_history table.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
percona-xtrabackup	21.10 impish	Not in release
	21.04 hirsute	Not in release
	20.10 groovy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

rodrigo-zaiden

issue introduced in version 2.4.11 in commit https://github.com/percona/percona-xtrabackup/commit/0b38ffc0f30

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
percona-xtrabackup	Upstream: 4929726 Upstream: c4d541d Upstream: fbb2970 Upstream: 4a5a771 Upstream: 7b33df6 Upstream: 978c824 Upstream: c80d24f Upstream: 0fed3fc

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N