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CVE-2016-8640

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1 EPSS 2.34% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-08-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2016-8640
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.1
EPSS
2.34%

Original NVD Description

A SQL injection vulnerability in pycsw all versions before 2.0.2, 1.10.5 and 1.8.6 that leads to read and extract of any data from any table in the pycsw database that the database user has access to. Also on PostgreSQL (at least) it is possible to perform updates/inserts/deletes and database modifications to any table the database user has access to.