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ghsa-h268-g7j5-rm2g

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-08-11 15:32

Modified

2025-08-11 15:32

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

Details

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.

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-08-11 14:19

Modified

2025-08-11 15:04

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

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.

References

URL

Tags

https://docs.yugabyte.com/preview/secure/vulnerability-disclosure-policy/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	YugabyteDB Inc	YugabyteDB	Version: 2024.1.0.0 < 2024.1.3.0 Version: 2024.2.0.0 < 2024.2.2.5 Version: 2.20.0.0 < 2.20.9.0

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