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Debian: CVE-2016-8640: pycsw -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-8640: pycsw -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/01/2018
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-pycsw

References

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