CVE-2023-29194vitess allows users to create keyspaces that can deny access to already existing keyspaces
- 4.1MediumCVSS base score
- 0.78%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 43% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. Users can either intentionally or inadvertently create a keyspace containing `/` characters such that from that point on, anyone who tries to view keyspaces from VTAdmin will receive an error. Trying to list all the keyspaces using `vtctldclient GetKeyspaces` will also return an error. Note that all other keyspaces can still be administered using the CLI (vtctldclient). This issue is fixed in version 16.0.1. As a workaround, delete the offending keyspace using a CLI client (vtctldclient).
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 11 days later
· 11 days later
Published
- 22 months later
· 22 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low2.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.78% · top 43% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.1.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Govitess.io/vitessGHSA-735r-hv67-g38f (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/security/advisories/GHSA-735r-hv67-g38f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commit/adf10196760ad0b3991a7aa7a8580a544e6ddf88 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/commits/v0.16.1/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-1221 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-735r-hv67-g38f (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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