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SQL Injection in pycsw

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

Package

pip 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

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.192%
(57th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-8640

GHSA ID

GHSA-hg4c-rgvm-964g

Source code

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