CVE-2022-21687

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    CVE-2022-21687

    Published: 1 Feb 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Command injection in gh-ost

    Details: gh-ost is a triggerless online schema migration solution for MySQL. Versions prior to 1.1.3 are subject to an arbitrary file read vulnerability. The attacker must have access to the target host or trick an administrator into executing a malicious gh-ost command on a host running gh-ost, plus network access from host running gh-ost to the attack's malicious MySQL server. The `-database` parameter does not properly sanitize user input which can lead to arbitrary file reads.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/21xxx/CVE-2022-21687.json, https://github.com/github/gh-ost/security/advisories/GHSA-rrp4-2xx3-mv29, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21687, https://github.com/github/gh-ost/commit/a91ab042de013cfd8fbb633763438932d9080d8f

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -627c3c7aaf1d9ba0db29b5829d67e401bbedccda

    Affected versions

    v1.1.2
    v1.1.1
    v1.1.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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