CVE-2018-6521

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
2018-02-02T01:29:00Z
Modified
2026-07-07T08:49:55Z
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":  [
        {
            "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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "9.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "debian:debian_linux"
        }
    ]
}
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
Database specific
Show details
{
    "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"