vitessio/vitess · Security
Vitess users with backup storage access can write to arbitrary file paths on restore
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-r492-hjgh-c9gw
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-27969
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 9.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:L/SI:H/SA:H
Description
Impact
Anyone with read/write access to the backup storage location (e.g. an S3 bucket) can manipulate backup manifest files so that files in the manifest — which may be files that they have also added to the manifest and backup contents — are written to any accessible location on restore. This is a common Path Traversal security issue. This can be used to provide that attacker with unintended/unauthorized access to the production deployment environment — allowing them to access information available in that environment as well as run any additional arbitrary commands there.
Patches
v23.0.3 and v22.0.4
Resources
CWEs
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
References
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/security/advisories/GHSA-r492-hjgh-c9gw ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27969 ↗
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/19470 ↗
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/c565cab615bc962bda061dcd645aa7506c59ca4a ↗
- https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r492-hjgh-c9gw ↗