CVE-2016-8640
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…
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- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 22 months later
· 22 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Weakness
Affected products
https://github.com/geopython · pycsw
- affected all versions before 2.0.2, 1.10.5 and 1.8.6
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (4)
- 94302 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/pull/474/files (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161111 CVE-2016-8640 pycsw SQL injection issue (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/geopython/pycsw/pull/474.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hg4c-rgvm-964g (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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