CVE-2025-8865 (GCVE-0-2025-8865)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-11 14:19 – Updated: 2025-08-11 15:04
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Summary
The YugabyteDB tablet server contains a flaw in its YCQL query handling that can trigger a null pointer dereference when processing certain malformed inputs. An authenticated attacker could exploit this issue to crash the YCQL tablet server, resulting in a denial of service.
Severity ?
4.1 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
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YugabyteDB Inc YugabyteDB Affected: 2024.1.0.0 , < 2024.1.3.0 (custom)
Affected: 2024.2.0.0 , < 2024.2.2.5 (custom)
Affected: 2.20.0.0 , < 2.20.9.0 (custom)
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