Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-25212
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 18:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:21.936601091Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://percona.com",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2026-04-02T00:00:00+00:00"
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