CVE-2020-10997

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

percona Xtrabackup: from 2.4.11 before 2.4.20; from 8.0.4 before 8.0.11 — fixed in 2.4.20, 8.0.11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: percona Xtrabackup 2.4.20, 8.0.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-2142
https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/04/16/cve-2020-10997-percona-xtrabackup-information-disclosure-of-command-line-arguments/
https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-2142
https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/04/16/cve-2020-10997-percona-xtrabackup-information-disclosure-of-command-line-arguments/

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