SQL injection in GLPI - CVE-2016-7508

 

SQL injection in GLPI - CVE-2016-7508

Published: June 28, 2017 / Updated: September 14, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7221
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7508
CWE-ID: CWE-89
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vendor: glpi-project
Affected software:
GLPI

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

The weakness exists due to improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted character when the database is configured to use Big5 Asian encoding and execute arbitrary SQL commands on the system.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-7508

Install update from vendor's website.

Sources