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CVE-2026-25212 (GCVE-0-2026-25212)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-02 00:00 – Updated: 2026-04-02 17:39
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Percona PMM before 3.7. Because an internal database user retains specific superuser privileges, an attacker with pmm-admin rights can abuse the "Add data source" feature to break out of the database context and execute shell commands on the underlying operating system.
Severity
9.9 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-02 17:38 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Assigner
References
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