Vitess vulnerable to infinite memory consumption and vtgate crash
Priority LOW 24CWE-835Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-835.
Summary
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. When executing the following simple query, the `vtgate` will go into an endless loop that also keeps consuming memory and eventually will run out of memory. This vulnerability is fixed in 19.0.4, 18.0.5, and 17.0.7.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00751 55th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed vitess (vitessio): 17.0.7, 18.0.5, 19.0.4github.com/vitessio/vitess (Go): 19.0.4, 18.0.5, 17.0.7+1 more product
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| backstage | vitess | before 17.0.7; 18.0.0 to before 18.0.5; 19.0.0 to before 19.0.4 | 17.0.7, 18.0.5, 19.0.4 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/vitessio/vitess (Go) | 19.0.0 to before 19.0.4 | 19.0.4 | Patch available | GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 |
| — | github.com/vitessio/vitess (Go) | 18.0.0 to before 18.0.5 | 18.0.5 | Patch available | GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 |
| — | github.com/vitessio/vitess (Go) | before 17.0.7 | 17.0.7 | Patch available | GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 |
| — | vitess.io/vitess (Go) | before 0.17.7 | 0.17.7 | Patch available | GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 |
| — | vitess.io/vitess (Go) | 0.18.0 to before 0.18.5 | 0.18.5 | Patch available | GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 |
| — | vitess.io/vitess (Go) | 0.19.0 to before 0.19.4 | 0.19.4 | Patch available | GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 |
- vitess Vendorbackstage Affected before 17.0.7; 18.0.0 to before 18.0.5; 19.0.0 to before 19.0.4 Fixed in 17.0.7, 18.0.5, 19.0.4 Patch available CNA
- github.com/vitessio/vitess (Go) Vendor— Affected 19.0.0 to before 19.0.4 Fixed in 19.0.4 Patch available GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2
- github.com/vitessio/vitess (Go) Vendor— Affected 18.0.0 to before 18.0.5 Fixed in 18.0.5 Patch available GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2
- github.com/vitessio/vitess (Go) Vendor— Affected before 17.0.7 Fixed in 17.0.7 Patch available GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2
- vitess.io/vitess (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.17.7 Fixed in 0.17.7 Patch available GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2
- vitess.io/vitess (Go) Vendor— Affected 0.18.0 to before 0.18.5 Fixed in 0.18.5 Patch available GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2
- vitess.io/vitess (Go) Vendor— Affected 0.19.0 to before 0.19.4 Fixed in 0.19.4 Patch available GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2
Remediation
- Fix · CNA vitess (vitessio) Fixed in 17.0.7, 18.0.5, 19.0.4
- Fix · GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 github.com/vitessio/vitess (Go) Fixed in 19.0.4 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 github.com/vitessio/vitess (Go) Fixed in 18.0.5 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 github.com/vitessio/vitess (Go) Fixed in 17.0.7 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 vitess.io/vitess (Go) Fixed in 0.17.7 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 vitess.io/vitess (Go) Fixed in 0.18.5 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 vitess.io/vitess (Go) Fixed in 0.19.4 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-32886
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2
References
Other 8
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/security/advisories/GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/2fd5ba1dbf6e9b32fdfdaf869d130066b1b5c0df
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/9df4b66550e46b5d7079e21ed0e1b0f49f92b055
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/c46dc5b6a4329a10589ca928392218d96031ac8d
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/d438adf7e34a6cf00fe441db80842ec669a99202
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/8f6cfaaa643a08dc111395a75a2d250ee746cfa8/go/mysql/collations/charset/convert.go#L73-L79
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/8f6cfaaa643a08dc111395a75a2d250ee746cfa8/go/mysql/collations/charset/unicode/utf16.go#L69-L71
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess
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Sources
- CVE-2024-32886 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-32886 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-32886 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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