CVE-2025-8865

State: Published
Severity: 4.1 Medium
Published: Aug 11, 2025
Updated: Aug 11, 2025
Reserved: Aug 11, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	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	Yugabyte

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
YugabyteDBYugabyteDB Inc	2024.1.0.0 to before 2024.1.3.0Affected 2024.2.0.0 to before 2024.2.2.5Affected 2.20.0.0 to before 2.20.9.0Affected

References

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

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