PT-2018-5042 · Pycsw · Pycsw

Published 2018-08-01 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2016-8640

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

9.3

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pycsw versions prior to 2.0.2 pycsw versions prior to 1.10.5 pycsw versions prior to 1.8.6

Description A SQL injection issue affects the pycsw database, allowing unauthorized access to read and extract data from any table that the database user has access to. On PostgreSQL, it is also possible to perform updates, inserts, deletes, and modify the database in any table the database user has access to.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.0.2, update to version 2.0.2 or later. For versions prior to 1.10.5, update to version 1.10.5 or later. For versions prior to 1.8.6, update to version 1.8.6 or later.

Fix

SQL injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-89

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-8640

GHSA-HG4C-RGVM-964G

PYSEC-2018-98

Affected Products

Pycsw

References · 19

• https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/pull/474/files · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8640 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8640 · Vendor Advisory
• https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/geopython/pycsw/pull/474.patch · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-hg4c-rgvm-964g · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8640 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8640 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8640 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8640 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8640 · Security Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/406 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2018-98 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/geopython/pycsw · Note
• https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/commit/daaf09b4b920708a415be3c7f446739661ba3753 · Note
• https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/commit/522873e5ce48bb9cbd4e7e8168ca881ce709c222 · Note