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CVE-2023-37472: Query injection in Knowage server

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 26/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.70% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 53.4% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: KnowageLabs Knowage-Server 8.1.8.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to KnowageLabs Knowage-Server 8.1.8 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Knowage is an open source suite for business analytics. The application often use user supplied data to create HQL queries without prior sanitization. An attacker can create specially crafted HQL queries that will break subsequent SQL queries generated by the Hibernate engine. The endpoint `_/knowage/restful-services/2.0/documents/listDocument_` calls the `_countBIObjects_` method of the `_BIObjectDAOHibImpl_` object with the user supplied `_label_` parameter without prior sanitization. This can lead to SQL injection in the backing database. Other injections have been identified in the application as well. An authenticated attacker with low privileges could leverage this vulnerability in order to retrieve sensitive information from the database, such as account credentials or business information. This issue has been addressed in version 8.1.8. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

MediumCVSS 6.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

SQL injection

Published: Jul 14, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.7% · 53th percentile
CWE: CWE-89

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.7%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: proof of concept
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 6.5
CNA · GitHub_M: 7.7; 1.2 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Vendor	Product	CPE
eng	knowage	cpe:2.3:a:eng:knowage

Affected versions

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

eng knowage6.1.0 and later · before 8.1.8

Versions reported by the vendor

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

KnowageLabs Knowage-Server
- >= 6.0.0, < 8.1.8affected

Same product

eng: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2019-13188In Knowage through 6.1.1, an unauthenticated user can bypass access controls and access the entire application.
40Plan
CVE-2025-59954Knowage Contains a Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
37Monitor
CVE-2024-57971DataSourceResource.java in the SpagoBI API support in Knowage Server in KNOWAGE before 8.1.30 does not ensure that java:comp/env/jdbc/ occur
36Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-35154Jun 23, 2023 · Knowage-Server vulnerable to account validation bypass
26Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2023-36819Jul 3, 2023 · Knowage-Server vulnerable to Path traversal in download functionalities
26Monitor
Later →CVE-2023-38702Aug 4, 2023 · Knowage Server vulnerable to path traversal via upload functionality
35Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
KnowageLabs Knowage-Server	8.1.8 · description	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

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Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2023-3515421 days apartKnowage-Server vulnerable to account validation bypass
26Monitor

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: none
Availability: none

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-89 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

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

The bug in code

The whole CWE-89 class

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

Vulnerable

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

Fixed

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

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 29, 2026, 11:45 AM UTC

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