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CVE-2026-27969GHSA-R492-HJGH-C9GWGO-2026-4570

Vitess users with backup storage access can write to arbitrary file paths on restore

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 22.0.4, 23.0.3, 0.23.3, 0.22.4
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. Prior to versions 23.0.3 and 22.0.4, anyone with read/write access to the backup storage location (e.g. an S3 bucket) can manipulate backup manifest files so that files in the manifest — which may be files that they have also added to the manifest and backup contents — are written to any accessible location on restore. This is a common path traversal security issue. This can be used to provide that attacker with unintended/unauthorized access to the production deployment environment — allowing them to access information available in that environment as well as run any additional arbitrary commands there. Versions 23.0.3 and 22.0.4 contain a patch. No known workarounds are available.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • vitessio vitess

    fixed in 22.0.4; From 23.0.0 · fixed in 23.0.3

  • vitess.io/vitessGo

    From 0.23.0-rc1 · fixed in 0.23.3

  • vitess.io/vitessGo

    fixed in 0.22.4

  • vitess.io/vitessGo

    fixed in 0.22.4; From 0.23.0-rc1 · fixed in 0.23.3

References 3

GitHub · vitessio/vitess