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CVE-2023-29195

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-29195 is a low-severity vulnerability affecting Vitess, a database clustering system, specifically versions prior to 16.0.2. It allows an authenticated user to create a malformed shard name through VTAdmin, leading to a denial of service for VTAdmin functionality related to shard creation and keyspace viewing. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium) due to its low impact on availability and requiring user authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 16.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:vitess:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0098 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: vitess.io/vitessFixed in: 0.16.2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 x64Fixed in: 16.0.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 ARMFixed in: 16.0.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 vitess 16.0.2-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 16.0.2-1

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2023-Jun/CVE-2023-29195

CVE-2023-29195

Jun 13, 2023
goGHSA-pqj7-jx24-wj7wmedium

VTAdmin users that can create shards can deny access to other functions

May 11, 2023
microsoft2023-May/CVE-2023-29195Moderate

Vitess VTAdmin users that can create shards can deny access to other functions

May 9, 2023

References

github.com / vitessio/vitess/commit/9dcbd7de3180f47e94f54989fb5c66daea00c920
Patch
github.com / vitessio/vitess/issues/12842
ExploitIssue TrackingPatch
github.com / vitessio/vitess/pull/12843
Issue TrackingPatch
github.com / vitessio/vitess/releases/tag/v16.0.2
Release Notes
github.com / vitessio/vitess/security/advisories/GHSA-pqj7-jx24-wj7w
MitigationVendor Advisory
pkg.go.dev / vitess.io/[email protected]
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