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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2016-8640

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CVE-2016-8640

A SQL injection vulnerability in pycsw all versions before 2.0.2, 1.10 ...

Published Modified CWE 89
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
GHSA9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA.

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 packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
pip::GitHub Security Advisory pippycsw2.0.2, 1.8.6, 1.10.5
debian 11pycsw2.0.2+dfsg-1
debian 12pycsw2.0.2+dfsg-1
debian 13pycsw2.0.2+dfsg-1
debian 14pycsw2.0.2+dfsg-1
echopycsw2.0.2+dfsg-1

References

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