CVE-2018-6521

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6521
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6521.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6521
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2018-02-02T01:29:00.370Z
Modified
2026-06-18T03:55:45.994950062Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The sqlauth module in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.15.2 relies on the MySQL utf8 charset, which truncates queries upon encountering four-byte characters. There might be a scenario in which this allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
d6d8df7297778317fbf07edc8d882ceb283715f0
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:simplesamlphp:simplesamlphp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.15.2"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

v1.*
v1.12.0
v1.15.0
v1.15.0-rc1
v1.15.0-rc2
v1.15.0-rc3
v1.15.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6521.json"