CVE-2016-8640

Summary

CVECVE-2016-8640
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-08-01 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:20:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-89

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pycsw Pycsw All All All All
Application Pycsw Pycsw All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-sec: CVE-2016-8640 pycsw SQL injection issue MLIST seclists.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Better CQL handling by tomkralidis · Pull Request #474 · geopython/pycsw · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
pycsw CVE-2016-8640 SQL Injection Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/geopython/pycsw/pull/474.patch CONFIRM patch-diff.githubusercontent.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 983492 Python (pip) Security Update for pycsw (GHSA-hg4c-rgvm-964g)

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