Insecure Encryption Affecting percona/percona-xtrabackup package, versions [,2.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.12% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PERCONAPERCONAXTRABACKUP-2366551
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Mar 2017

CVE-2016-6225  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-326  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade percona/percona-xtrabackup to version 2.4.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Encryption xbcrypt in Percona XtraBackup before 2.3.6 and 2.4.x before 2.4.5 does not properly set the initialization vector (IV) for encryption, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from encrypted backup files via a Chosen-Plaintext attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-6394.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1