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SQL Injection via GeoJSON in sequelize

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 1, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 21, 2023

Package

npm sequelize (npm)

Affected versions

>= 3.4.0, < 3.23.6

Patched versions

3.23.6

Description

Affected versions of sequelize are vulnerable to SQL Injection in Models that have fields with the GEOMETRY DataType. This vulnerability occurs because single quotes in document values are not escaped for GeoJSON documents using ST_GeomFromGeoJSON, and MySQL GeoJSON documents using GeomFromText.

Recommendation

Update to version 3.23.6 or later.

References

Reviewed Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 1, 2020
Last updated Apr 21, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-1000225

GHSA ID

GHSA-5v9h-q3gj-c32x

Source code

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