SQL Injection in pycsw · CVE-2016-8640 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

SQL Injection in pycsw

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 15, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 23, 2023

Package

pycsw (pip)

Affected versions

< 1.8.6

>= 1.10.0, < 1.10.5

>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.2

Patched versions

1.8.6

1.10.5

2.0.2

Description

A SQL injection vulnerability in pycsw all versions before 2.0.2, 1.10.5 and 1.8.6 that leads to read and extract of any data from any table in the pycsw database that the database user has access to. Also on PostgreSQL (at least) it is possible to perform updates/inserts/deletes and database modifications to any table the database user has access to.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 15, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Aug 23, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.1

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N