CVE-2024-32886: Vitess vulnerable to infinite memory consumption and vtgate crash
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 19/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.75% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 55.1% of all records.
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- Fixed version: vitessio vitess 19.0.4; azl3 vitess 19.0.4-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 19.0.4-1; azl3 vitess 19.0.4-7 on Azure Linux 3.0 19.0.4-1.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to vitessio vitess 19.0.4; azl3 vitess 19.0.4-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 19.0.4-1; azl3 vitess 19.0.4-7 on Azure Linux 3.0 19.0.4-1 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
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.
- Published
- May 8, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.7% · 55th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-835
Report tools
Action score
19
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 19 / 40 · 4.9 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.7%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · GitHub_M
- 4.9
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- Not in KEV: no record of exploitation in the wild
- No public exploit code on record
- A fix has been released
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Noroxi analysis
What does it mean in your environment?
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
vitessio vitess
- < 17.0.7, >= 18.0.0, < 18.0.5, >= 19.0.0, < 19.0.4affected
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/vitessio/vitess | from 18.0.0 · before 18.0.5 | 18.0.5 |
| Go | github.com/vitessio/vitess | from 19.0.0 · before 19.0.4 | 19.0.4 |
| Go | github.com/vitessio/vitess | before 17.0.7 | 17.0.7 |
| Go | vitess.io/vitess | from 0.18.0 · before 0.18.5 | 0.18.5 |
| Go | vitess.io/vitess | from 0.19.0 · before 0.19.4 | 0.19.4 |
| Go | vitess.io/vitess | before 0.17.7 | 0.17.7 |
Same product
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Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| vitessio vitess | 19.0.4 · description | Vendor (CNA) |
| azl3 vitess 19.0.4-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 | 19.0.4-1 · CBL-Mariner Releases | Microsoft (MSRC) |
| azl3 vitess 19.0.4-7 on Azure Linux 3.0 | 19.0.4-1 · CBL-Mariner Releases | Microsoft (MSRC) |
| cbl2 vitess 17.0.7-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0 | 17.0.7-1 · CBL-Mariner Releases | Microsoft (MSRC) |
| cbl2 vitess 17.0.7-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0 | 17.0.7-1 · CBL-Mariner Releases | Microsoft (MSRC) |
| cbl2 vitess 17.0.7-7 on CBL-Mariner 2.0 | 17.0.7-1 · CBL-Mariner Releases | Microsoft (MSRC) |
| Go:github.com/vitessio/vitess | 17.0.7 | Package registry (OSV) |
| Go:github.com/vitessio/vitess | 18.0.5 | Package registry (OSV) |
| Go:github.com/vitessio/vitess | 19.0.4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| Go:vitess.io/vitess | 0.17.7 | Package registry (OSV) |
| Go:vitess.io/vitess | 0.18.5 | Package registry (OSV) |
| Go:vitess.io/vitess | 0.19.4 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- Administrator privileges are required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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- github.com/vitessio/vitess/blob/8f6cfaaa643a08dc111395a75a2d250ee746cfa8/go/mysql/collations/charset/unicode/utf16.go#L69-L71
- github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/2fd5ba1dbf6e9b32fdfdaf869d130066b1b5c0df
- github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/9df4b66550e46b5d7079e21ed0e1b0f49f92b055
- github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/c46dc5b6a4329a10589ca928392218d96031ac8d
- github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/d438adf7e34a6cf00fe441db80842ec669a99202
- github.com/vitessio/vitess/security/advisories/GHSA-649x-hxfx-57j2
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.