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CVE-2024-37820 — A nil pointer dereference in PingCAP TiDB v8

A nil pointer dereference in PingCAP TiDB v8.2.0-alpha-216-gfe5858b allows attackers to crash the application via expression.inferCollation.

CVSS

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EPSS

11.00% (top 70.00%)

CWE

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Published

2024-06-25T00:00:00.000Z

Last modified

2024-11-21T19:03:29.772Z

CVSS vector

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01What is this vulnerability?

A nil pointer dereference in PingCAP TiDB v8.2.0-alpha-216-gfe5858b allows attackers to crash the application via expression.inferCollation.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

Open the Sigma generator with a pre-filled prompt for this CVE to draft a starting detection in your stack of choice:

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

github.com — https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues/53580
gist.github.com — https://gist.github.com/ycybfhb/a9c1e14ce281f2f553adca84d384b761

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