CVE-2020-10997
Percona XtraBackup before 2.4.20 unintentionally writes the command line to any resulting backup file output.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.95%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Percona XtraBackup before 2.4.20 unintentionally writes the command line to any resulting backup file output. This may include sensitive arguments passed at run time. In addition, when --history is passed at run time, this command line is also written to the PERCONA_SCHEMA.xtrabackup_history table.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.95% probability · 61th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-200
- Affected
- percona/xtrabackup
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.0% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-2142Vendor Advisory
- https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/04/16/cve-2020-10997-percona-xtrabackup-information-disclosure-of-command-line-arguments/Vendor Advisory
- https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-2142Vendor Advisory
- https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/04/16/cve-2020-10997-percona-xtrabackup-information-disclosure-of-command-line-arguments/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.