CVE-2020-10997

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.0%

Medium (6.5) in percona xtrabackup. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Percona XtraBackup before 2.4.20 unintentionally writes the command line to any resulting backup file output. This may include sensitive arguments passed at run time. In addition, when --history is passed at run time, this command line is also written to the PERCONA_SCHEMA.xtrabackup_history table.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 61% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-200
Published: 2020-04-27
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

percona:xtrabackup

References

https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-2142
https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/04/16/cve-2020-10997-percona-xtrabackup-information-disclosure-of-command-line-arguments/
https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-2142
https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/04/16/cve-2020-10997-percona-xtrabackup-information-disclosure-of-command-line-arguments/

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