CVE-2016-8640

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    CVE-2016-8640

    Published: 1 Aug 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94302, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/406, https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/pull/474/files, https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/geopython/pycsw/pull/474.patch

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8fd5d6cae83b95d7dea6bdd6b29835e7f7be4816

    Affected versions

    2.0.1
    2.0.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
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    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High