CVE-2024-32886

Vitess vulnerable to infinite memory consumption and vtgate crash

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 4.9
EPSS: EPSS 0.75 % · percentile 55 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-05-08
Updated: 2024-08-02
Assigner: GitHub_M
NVD status: Deferred

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

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

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

Product	Versions
vitessio · vitess	affected < 17.0.7 ; affected >= 18.0.0, < 18.0.5 ; affected >= 19.0.0, < 19.0.4

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD