CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8640

9.1 CRITICAL Published 2018-08-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-08-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-89

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.

Affected configurations

• pycsw pycsw (< 1.8.6) • pycsw pycsw (>= 1.10.0 < 1.10.5) • pycsw pycsw (>= 2.0.0 < 2.0.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command weakness

References