SQL injection via unescaped parenthesized attribute names
Published Feb 16, 2023 · Updated Apr 1, 2025
SQL injection in Sequelize 6.28.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL through user-controlled attribute names. Model.findAll attribute processing inserts strings containing parentheses into generated SQL verbatim instead of escaping them as column identifiers. Exploitation requires an application to pass attacker-controlled values into its attributes list, enabling database reads, writes, or deletion under the application's database privileges.
Summary
What happened
SQL injection in Sequelize 6.28.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL through user-controlled attribute names. Model.findAll attribute processing inserts strings containing parentheses into generated SQL verbatim instead of escaping them as column identifiers. Exploitation requires an application to pass attacker-controlled values into its attributes list, enabling database reads, writes, or deletion under the application's database privileges.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-22578
- Published
- Feb 16, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 1, 2025
- Vendor
- Sequelize
- Product
- Sequelize
- Classifications
- CWE-790, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 16, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 1, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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