SQL injection in Orange Human Resource Management - CVE-2012-5367

 

SQL injection in Orange Human Resource Management - CVE-2012-5367

Published: December 3, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU43276
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-5367
CWE-ID: CWE-89
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vendor: OrangeHRM Inc.
Affected software:
Orange Human Resource Management

Detailed vulnerability description

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 sortField parameter to (1) viewCustomers, (2) viewPayGrades, or (3) viewSystemUsers in symfony/web/index.php/admin/, as demonstrated using cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. 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.


How to mitigate CVE-2012-5367

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