{"id":"CVE-2016-8640","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-8640","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:46:13.455Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2018-08-01T18:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:54:40.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.1,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-89"],"affected":["pycsw/pycsw"],"epss":{"score":0.02306,"percentile":0.83257,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.31%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/406","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94302","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/pull/474/files","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/geopython/pycsw/pull/474.patch","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/406","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94302","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/pull/474/files","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/geopython/pycsw/pull/474.patch","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8640","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}