# CVE-2026-25212: An issue was discovered in Percona PMM before 3.7.

- Severity: CVSS 9.9 (Critical), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2026-04-02 · Updated: 2026-04-02

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://percona.com
- 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://github.com/5170Temp/CVE-2026-25212

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