CVE-2016-8640

NameCVE-2016-8640
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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
pycsw (PTS)buster/non-free2.2.0+dfsg-6fixed
bullseye/non-free2.6.0+dfsg-1fixed
trixie/non-free, sid/non-free, bookworm/non-free2.6.1+dfsg-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
pycswsource(unstable)2.0.2+dfsg-1

Notes

https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/pull/474/files
https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/geopython/pycsw/pull/474.patch

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