SQL injection in Debian products - CVE-2013-5589
Published: August 29, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42617
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5589
CWE-ID: CWE-89
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed via the id parameter. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read, delete, modify data in database and gain complete control over the affected application.
Affected software
Cacti
Opensuse
Debian Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
cacti
Opensuse
Debian Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
cacti
How to mitigate CVE-2013-5589
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
cacti - addressed in versions 0.8.8b-2.el5, 0.8.8b-2.el6