CVE-2026-25212

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-04-02 · updated 2026-07-24
Weakness: CWE-250

Description

An issue was discovered in Percona PMM before 3.7. Because an internal database user retains specific superuser privileges, an attacker with pmm-admin rights can abuse the "Add data source" feature to break out of the database context and execute shell commands on the underlying operating system.

Affected products

Percona Monitoring and Management: before 3.7.0 — fixed in 3.7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Percona Monitoring and Management 3.7.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management/3/release-notes/3.7.0.html#authenticated-remote-code-execution-via-internal-data-source-cve-2026-25212
https://percona.com

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