CVE-2014-2029

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-09-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The automatic version check functionality in the tools in Percona Toolkit 2.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information or execute arbitrary code by leveraging use of HTTP to download configuration information from v.percona.com.

Affected products

percona-toolkit: 2.1

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/19/14
https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-toolkit/+bug/1279502
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864194
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/19/14
https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-toolkit/+bug/1279502
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864194

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