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nocodb SQL Injection vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 17, 2023 in nocodb/nocodb • Updated Nov 5, 2023

Package

npm nocodb (npm)

Affected versions

< 0.111.0

Patched versions

0.111.0

Description

Summary

Nocodb contains SQL injection vulnerability, that allows an authenticated attacker with creator access to query the underlying database.

Product

nocodb/nocodb

Tested Version

0.109.2

Details

SQL injection in SqliteClient.ts (GHSL-2023-141)

By supplying a specially crafted payload to the given below parameter and endpoint, an attacker can inject arbitrary SQL queries to be executed. Since this is a blind SQL injections, an attacker may need to use time-based payloads which would include a function to delay execution for a given number of seconds. The response time indicates, whether the result of the query execution was true or false. Depending on the result, the HTTP response will be returned after a given number of seconds, indicating TRUE, or immediately, indicating FALSE. In that way, an attacker can reveal the data present in the database.

The triggerList method creates a SQL query using the user-controlled table_name parameter value from the tableCreate endpoint.

async triggerList(args: any = {}) {
  const _func = this.triggerList.name;
  const result = new Result();
  log.api(`${_func}:args:`, args);

  try {
    args.databaseName = this.connectionConfig.connection.database;

    const response = await this.sqlClient.raw(
      `select *, name as trigger_name from sqlite_master where type = 'trigger' and tbl_name='${args.tn}';`,
    );
[...]

Impact

This issue may lead to Information Disclosure.

Credit

This issue was discovered and reported by GHSL team member @sylwia-budzynska (Sylwia Budzynska).

Disclosure Policy

This report is subject to our coordinated disclosure policy.

References

@mertmit mertmit published to nocodb/nocodb Oct 17, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 17, 2023
Reviewed Oct 17, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 17, 2023
Last updated Nov 5, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

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

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.076%
(34th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-43794

GHSA ID

GHSA-3m5q-q39v-xf8f

Source code

Credits

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