High severity · published Dec 2, 2020
CVE-2020-25638
A flaw was found in hibernate-core in versions prior to and including 5.4.23.Final
7.4
CVSS
2.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in hibernate-core in versions prior to and including 5.4.23.Final. A SQL injection in the implementation of the JPA Criteria API can permit unsanitized literals when a literal is used in the SQL comments of the query. This flaw could allow an attacker to access unauthorized information or possibly conduct further attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.9% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CC
Communications Cloud Native Core Console · Oracle
1.9.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
HO
Hibernate Orm · Hibernate
before 5.3.20; 5.4.0 before 5.4.24 · source: NVD
QU
Quarkus · Quarkus
through 1.9.2 · source: NVD
RC
Retail Customer Management And Segmentation Foundation · Oracle
19.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25638
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25638
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1881353
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r833c1276e41334fa675848a08daf0c61f39009f9f9a400d9f7006d44%40%3Cdev.turbine.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf2378209c676a28b71f9b604a3b3517c448540b85367160e558ef9df%40%3Ccommits.turbine.apache.org%3E
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00000.html
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4908
Patch
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
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