Security advisory

{
  "id": "b1c4867de76d0aae5f8ab252d9b9143a282b9119ed5880dc54cdc1772d4ab3d4",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-10997",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-10997",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-10997",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-10997",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-percona-xtrabackup-2020-10997",
        "BIT-percona-xtrabackup-binary-2020-10997",
        "CVE-2020-10997"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/percona/percona-xtrabackup",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "b4e0db5e0d4dd6f5039a4f2244f484ad9f950bed"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "c8b4056a68cd78d18e577cdc8a15d44ce0f0d1ca"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "c2c0777c787710cdb80107a1e6a63245f935a555"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "486c27088014563d5389a211e6178761782318f5"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:percona:xtrabackup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.4.11"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "2.4.20"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:percona:xtrabackup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "8.0.4"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "8.0.11"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-10997.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:24.026585228Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "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/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-10997",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431050,
  "published_at": "2020-04-27T13:15:12.397+00:00"
}