CVE-2024-32886

Vitess vulnerable to infinite memory consumption and vtgate crash

MEDIUM
4.9
CVSS Score
Published: May 8, 2024 at 02:10 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:30 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorVitess

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Severity
MEDIUM4.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 17.0.7v < 18.0.5v < 19.0.4
Affected range stops below 17.0.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 18.0.5, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 19.0.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

4.9MEDIUMGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-835

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