CVE-2022-26944

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: 2022-06-02 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Percona XtraBackup 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. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-10997.

Affected products

percona Xtrabackup: 2.4.20

References

https://docs.percona.com/percona-xtrabackup/2.4/release-notes/2.4/2.4.25.html
https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-2722
https://docs.percona.com/percona-xtrabackup/2.4/release-notes/2.4/2.4.25.html
https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-2722

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