CVE-2016-8640

CriticalCVSS 9.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-89

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 1, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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