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.

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Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Weaknesses CWE-250
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-02T17:39:21.169Z

Reserved: 2026-01-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2026-25212

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-04-02T17:37:50.318Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-02T17:16:21.687

Modified: 2026-04-02T18:16:26.600

Link: CVE-2026-25212

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