GHSA-hg4c-rgvm-964g

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    GHSA-hg4c-rgvm-964g

    Published: 15 Aug 2018Last Modified: 9 Jun 2026

    Summary: SQL Injection in pycsw

    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: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8640, https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/pull/474/files, https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/commit/522873e5ce48bb9cbd4e7e8168ca881ce709c222, https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/commit/69546e13527c82e4f9191769215490381ad511b2, https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/commit/daaf09b4b920708a415be3c7f446739661ba3753, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hg4c-rgvm-964g, https://github.com/geopython/pycsw, https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pycsw/PYSEC-2018-98.yaml, https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/geopython/pycsw/pull/474.patch, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/406

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pycsw

    Purl: pkg:pypi/pycsw

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 2.0.0
    Fixed -2.0.2

    Affected versions

    2.0.0
    2.0.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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