RSA Web Threat Detection SQL Injection Vulnerability

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• rsa web threat detectionbefore 6.4

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (dell). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• RSA Web Threat Detection

  • unspecified and later · before 6.4affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2014-4627SQL injection vulnerability in EMC RSA Web Threat Detection 4.x before 4.6.1.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL co
  36Monitor
• CVE-2015-4548EMC RSA Web Threat Detection before 5.1 SP1 allows local users to obtain root privileges by leveraging access to a service account and writi
  28Monitor
• CVE-2015-0541Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in EMC RSA Web Threat Detection before 5.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authenticat
  27Monitor
• CVE-2016-0919EMC RSA Web Threat Detection version 5.0, RSA Web Threat Detection version 5.1, RSA Web Threat Detection version 5.1.2 has a cross site scri
  24Monitor
• CVE-2015-4547EMC RSA Web Threat Detection before 5.1 SP1 stores a cleartext AnnoDB password in a configuration file, which allows remote authenticated us
  17Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The query text is built by concatenating user input. The database cannot tell where the data ends and the command begins.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const owner = req.query.owner;2const rows = await db.query(3  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = '" + owner + "'"4);

1const owner = req.query.owner;2const rows = await db.query(3  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = $1",4  [owner]5);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.