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| Advisory | Summary | Affected versions | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-104309 | In rare cases, a rangefeed bug may cause a checkpoint to be emitted prematurely, before all writes below the checkpoint timestamp have been emitted. | v2.1.11 to v22.2.17, v23.1.0 to v23.1.14, v23.2.0 | February 21, 2024 |
| A-114393 | A bug could cause a query plan to skip scanning rows from the local region when performing a lookup join with a REGIONAL BY ROW table as the input. | v23.1.0 to v23.1.12, and pre-release versions v23.1.0-beta.1, v23.1.0-beta.2, v23.1.0-beta.3, v23.1.0-rc.1, and v23.1.0-rc.2 | December 5, 2023 |
| A-190483 | Queries reading a table that uses at least one explicit column family in its definition and was restored from a backup using version v22.2.7 to v22.2.13 or v23.1.0 to v23.1.8 may return errors or incorrect results. | v22.2.7 to v22.2.13, v23.1.0 to v23.1.8 | September 22, 2023 |
| A-110363 | Clusters using row-level TTL and upgraded from v22.2.x to 23.1.9 may experience nodes crashing due to the erroneous deletion of a necessary metadata field. | Clusters running v22.2.x upgrading to v23.1.9 | September 12, 2023 |
| A-106617 | When the encryption-at-rest registry rolls over, the append-only log file contains a bug that could result in loss of the store. | v21.2.x, ≤ 22.1.21, ≤ 22.2.12, ≤ 23.1.7 | August 15, 2023 |
| A-99561 | When adding a new column using the new declarative schema changer, CockroachDB retrieves a unique secondary index mistakenly, assuming it to be a primary index. | v22.2.x, v23.1.0 to v23.1.5 | July 18, 2023 |
| A-103220 | Inserting rows into a multi-column-family table with COPY can corrupt the table, making future reads fail with internal errors. | v23.1.0-alpha.1 to v23.1.0 | May 16, 2023 |
| A-102375 | Some customers may experience spurious privilege errors when trying to run queries due to a bug in the query cache. | v22.1.19 and v22.2.8 | May 11, 2023 |
| A-101963 | In specific circumstances, a RESTORE operation may restore incorrect data from a backup that contains incorrect metadata related to revision history. | v22.2.0 to v22.2.8 and v22.1.0 to 22.1.19 | May 9, 2023 |
| A-99796 | After upgrading to CockroachDB v22.2.0-v22.2.7, a bug could cause primary index corruption when an ALTER TABLE..ADD COLUMN statement executes concurrently with an UPDATE or INSERT command, and the schema change fails and is rolled back. | v22.2.0 to v22.2.7 | April 17, 2023 |
| A-99049 | Non-admin SQL users with an authenticated HTTP session could download statement diagnostic bundles given a bundle URL from the DB Console or SQL shell with a valid HTTP session cookie. | v21.2.x, v22.1.0 to v22.1.16, v22.2.0 to v22.2.6 | March 29, 2023 |
| A-98779 | A restore job can potentially skip some data files upon resumption of an in-progress RESTORE, which could lead to missing rows after the job succeeds. |
v22.2.6 | March 29, 2023 |
| A-97932 | The SCRAM protocol had a high default hash count causing connection latency spikes for clients running on limited CPU. | v22.2.0 to v22.2.6 | March 29, 2023 |
| A-97090 | Queries planned with a zigzag join could produce incorrect results if the two indexes used for the join had a matching suffix of index key columns where the direction was different between the two indexes. | v19.1 to v22.1.15, v22.2.0 to v22.2.5 | March 6, 2023 |
| A-96924 | When executing ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN of a column used in a partial index, all DML statements referencing the table fail with an error during the delete-only phase. | v20.2.0 to v22.1.15, v22.2.0-v22.2.5 | March 6, 2023 |
| A-93398 | Altering a non-empty table to add a column with a DEFAULT expression in which the type of the expression did not match the type of the new column could cause the column to become corrupted. |
v22.2.0-alpha.1 to v22.2.3 | March 1, 2023 |
| A-97178 | Clusters that are upgraded to v22.2.4 when a previous upgrade to v22.2.x has not been finalized exhibit a bug that prevents non-admin users from connecting to the cluster. | v22.2.4 | February 16, 2023 |
| A-96465 | The global NOSQLLOGIN privilege does not restrict SQL access as it should. | v22.2.0-v22.2.3 | February 6, 2023 |
| A-96029 | CockroachDB may display higher than expected values for histogram metrics when calculating quantiles. | v22.2.0 - v22.2.3 | January 27, 2023 |
| C20230118 | CockroachDB Cloud users with the Developer role could perform SQL admin-like operations using a specific internal DB Console API. | CockroachDB Cloud from November 2022 - January 2023 | January 18, 2023 |
| A-93314 | CockroachDB crashes when a user-defined function is created using any implicit record type which contains a column of user-defined ENUM type as the function’s parameter type or return type. | v22.2.0 and v22.2.1 | January 4, 2023 |
| A-90146 | Changefeeds using the initial_scan='only' or schema_change_policy='stop' options may incorrectly complete with a successful status under certain circumstances. | v22.1.6 to v22.1.9 | December 20, 2022 |
| A-88042 | A RESTORE of an incremental backup may include rows that should not be restored, in a narrow set of circumstances relating to an ongoing IMPORT INTO job. |
v22.1.0 to v22.1.8 and v21.2.0 to v21.2.16 | October 24, 2022 |
| A-88993 | A query with ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses could return incorrect results if it scanned a multi-column index containing the ORDER BY columns, and a prefix of the index columns was held fixed to two or more constant values by the query filter or schema. |
v22.1.0 to v22.1.8 | October 17, 2022 |
| A-88047 | Querying a REGIONAL BY ROW or partitioned multi-region table could produce incorrect results if the query has a LIMIT of less than 100,000 and uses an inverted index. |
v22.1.0 to v22.1.7 | September 29, 2022 |
| A-84144 | Multi-region tables whose locality has been altered to REGIONAL BY ROW are at risk of being corrupted |
v22.1.0 to v22.1.3 | July 19, 2022 |
| A-82576 | Adding a column to a table which references a sequence, or creating a table with columns referencing sequences, adds an incomplete back-reference to the sequence metadata. | v22.1.0 to v22.1.2 | July 18, 2022 |
| A-82079 | If a CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW statement fails, all objects referenced in its SELECT query will be unusable. |
v21.2.0 to v21.2.12, v22.1.0 | July 18, 2022 |
| A-81448 | Secondary indexes containing columns that are not null, have a volatile default expression, and are present in one or more secondary indexes will have inconsistent values relative to the primary index, which can lead to incorrect query results. | v21.1.x, v21.2.0 to v21.2.12, v22.1.0 | June 28, 2022 |
| A-81968 | Left outer joins and correlated subqueries can produce incorrect results. | v22.1.0 | June 6, 2022 |
| A-82309 | During or after an upgrade from CockroachDB v21.2.x to v22.1.0, existing changefeeds will stop emitting data. | v22.1.0-alpha.1 to v22.1.0 | June 3, 2022 |
| A-81315 | Prepared SELECT queries that filter a column with a constant casted to the wrong type fail to return the expected results |
v21.2.0 to v21.2.10, v22.1.0-alpha.1 to v22.1.0 | May 23, 2022 |
| A-79066 | Data key rotation is inadvertently disabled if the store key hasn't changed since the last node start | All clusters with encryption-at-rest enabled running versions of CockroachDB v20.2.x, v21.1.0 to v21.1.18, and v21.2.0 to v21.2.9. | May 2, 2022 |
| A-79384 | The optimizer has been found to create logically incorrect query plans in some cases. | v21.1.0 to v21.1.17, v21.2.0 to v21.2.8, v22.1.0-alpha.1 to v22.1.0-beta.1 | April 14, 2022 |
| A-79281 | Importing duplicate keys can cause violations of UNIQUE constraints | v21.2.0 to v21.2.7, 22.1.0-alpha.1-22.1.0-alpha.5, v22.1.0-beta.1. | April 12, 2022 |
| A-78681 | The optimizer has been found to create logically incorrect query plans in some cases. | v21.1.0 to v21.1.16, v21.2.0 to v21.1.7, 22.1.0-alpha.1-22.1.0-alpha.5 | April 11, 2022 |
| A-76522 | The optimizer can omit ON conditions of joins in query plans, causing incorrect results. | v20.2.0 to v20.2.19, v21.1.0 to v21.1.15, v21.2.0 to v21.2.6 | March 9, 2022 |
| A-75758 | Users without the appropriate permissions may cancel any other users' sessions from the DB Console | v20.2.0 to v20.2.18, v21.1.0 to v21.1.13, v21.2.0 to v21.2.4 | February 10, 2022 |
| A-74736 | Queries can miss rows in a primary or unique index that is being scanned, causing incorrect query results. | v21.2.0 to v21.2.4 | February 7, 2022 |
| A-74385 | Partial indexes can be corrupted by UPDATE statements, resulting in incorrect query results for any queries that use the partial index |
v21.1 and v21.2 prior to v21.1.13 and v21.2.4 | January 6, 2022 |
| CVE-2021-44228 | No Cockroach Labs products or services are affected by the recent CVE-2021-44228 Apache Log4j vulnerability. | None | December 14, 2021 |
| A-73629 | Planning queries over partitioned tables with a DEFAULT partition in a PARTITION BY LIST clause could cause a spurious internal error |
v21.1 and v21.2 prior to v21.1.13 and v21.2.3 | December 14, 2021 |
| A-73024 | The optimizer could plan queries that use semi-joins against multi-region REGIONAL BY ROW tables incorrectly |
v21.2.0 | November 29, 2021 |
| A-72839 | Backups fail during upgrade process | v21.2.0 | November 18, 2021 |
| A-71553 | SQL statements that used secondary unique indexes that were created as a result of an ALTER PRIMARY KEY statement can return incorrect results. |
v20.2, v21.1 | November 8, 2021 |
| A-71655 | Zigzag joins could potentially produce incorrect results | v19.2, v20.1, v20.2, v21.1 | November 2, 2021 |
| A-71002 | CockroachDB v21.1.9 drops WHERE predicates from prepared statements in specific circumstances |
v21.1.9 | October 7, 2021 |
| A-69874 | CockroachDB v21.1.8 can not be downgraded | v21.1.8 | September 7, 2021 |
| A-68005 | sql.trace.txn.enable_threshold cluster setting causes crash loops |
v21.1.0 to v21.1.6 | August 20, 2021 |
| A-62842 | TRUNCATE TABLE during CREATE/ALTER INDEX can cause data corruption |
v20.2.0 to v20.2.8 | July 29, 2021 |
| A-64325 | Race condition between reads and replica removal | v20.1 and later | May 3, 2021 |
| A-63162 | Invalid incremental backups under certain circumstances | v19.1.0 to v19.1.11, v19.2.0 to v19.2.12, v20.1.0 to v20.1.14, v20.2.0 to v20.2.7 | April 30, 2021 |
| A-58932 | HTTP requests can cause full-cluster denial of service (DoS) | v19.2.0 to v19.2.11, v20.1.0 to v20.1.10, v20.2.0 to v20.2.3 | February 2, 2021 |
| A-56116 | Incorrect timezone calculations with "slim" zoneinfo format | All | October 29, 2020 |
| A-54418 | Incorrect behavior with large batch UPSERTs |
v20.1.4, v20.1.5 | September 24, 2020 |
| A-50587 | TRUNCATE prevents table renaming |
v19.1.0 to v19.1.10, v19.2.0 to v19.2.8 | July 6, 2020 |
| A-48860 | Data corruption/loss issue with snapshots and delete range | v2.1.0 to v2.1.9, v19.1.0 to v19.1.8, v19.2.0 to v19.2.6 | May 20, 2020 |
| A-44348 | Data leak in statement details | v2.1.0 to v2.1.11, v19.1.0 to v19.1.7, v19.2.0 to v19.2.3 | February 12, 2020 |
| A-44299 | Schema changes may cause cluster unavailability | v19.1.0 to v19.1.7, v19.2.0 to v19.2.3 | February 12, 2020 |
| A-44166 | SHOW JOBS and Jobs page can endanger cluster stability |
v19.2.0 to v19.2.2 | February 12, 2020 |
| A-43870 | HTTP authentication for non-Enterprise users | v2.1.10-onward, v19.1.6-onward, v19.2.2 | January 22, 2020 |
| A-42567 | HTTP endpoint vulnerability | v2.1.0 to v2.1.8, v19.1.0 to v19.1.5, v19.2.0 to v19.2.1 | January 22, 2020 |
| A-30821 | Authentication bypass for internal RPCs | v1.1.0 to v1.1.8, v2.0.0 to v2.0.4 | October 1, 2018 |
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