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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2026-25212

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.

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CVE-2026-25212
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2 Nov 2026, 18:23 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2026-25212

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Apr 2026, 00:00 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2026-25212
Complete source record
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  "id": "b26e64cb9c905a99b13eef8454d25aa51be25c0d604ea22dde4f4fb3f7767b15",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-25212",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2026-25212",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-25212",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2026-25212",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2026-25212"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/percona/pmm",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "60284c9a56a29c76ac19a44936f8e6e1089a5a18"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:percona:monitoring_and_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.7.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v3.5.0",
            "v2.28.0",
            "v2.27.0",
            "v2.26.0",
            "v2.25.0",
            "v2.24.0",
            "v2.23.0",
            "v2.22.0",
            "v2.21.0",
            "v2.20.0",
            "v2.19.0",
            "v2.18.0",
            "v2.17.0",
            "v2.16.0",
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            "v2.15.0",
            "v2.14.0",
            "v2.13.0",
            "v2.12.0",
            "v2.11.1",
            "v2.11.0",
            "v2.10.1",
            "v2.10.0",
            "v2.9.1",
            "v2.9.0",
            "v2.8.0",
            "v2.7.0",
            "v2.6.1",
            "v2.6.0",
            "v2.5.0",
            "v2.4.0",
            "v2.3.0",
            "v2.2.2",
            "v2.2.1",
            "v2.2.0",
            "v2.1.0",
            "v2.0.1",
            "v2.0.0",
            "v2.0.0-beta7",
            "v2.0.0-beta6",
            "v2.0.0-beta5",
            "v2.0.0-beta4",
            "v2.0.0-beta2",
            "v2.0.0-alpha5"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-25212.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:21.936601091Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "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://percona.com",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/25xxx/CVE-2026-25212.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25212"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/25xxx/CVE-2026-25212.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2026-25212",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 488305,
  "published_at": "2026-04-02T00:00:00+00:00"
}