CVE-2024-32886

Vitess vulnerable to infinite memory consumption and vtgate crash

Description

Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. When executing the following simple query, the `vtgate` will go into an endless loop that also keeps consuming memory and eventually will run out of memory. This vulnerability is fixed in 19.0.4, 18.0.5, and 17.0.7.

Scores

Weaknesses (CWE)

• CWE-835

Advisories

• GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 — Vitess vulnerable to infinite memory consumption and vtgate crash
• GO-2024-2826 — Denial of service attack by triggering unbounded memory usage in vitess.io/vitess

European references

• ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-1448
• GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-32886

Affected products

References

• https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/security/advisories/GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2
• https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/2fd5ba1dbf6e9b32fdfdaf869d130066b1b5c0df
• https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/9df4b66550e46b5d7079e21ed0e1b0f49f92b055
• https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/c46dc5b6a4329a10589ca928392218d96031ac8d
• https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/d438adf7e34a6cf00fe441db80842ec669a99202
• https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/8f6cfaaa643a08dc111395a75a2d250ee746cfa8/go/mysql/collations/charset/convert.go#L73-L79
• https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/8f6cfaaa643a08dc111395a75a2d250ee746cfa8/go/mysql/collations/charset/unicode/utf16.go#L69-L71

Sources