Bug 1674059 (CVE-2019-7548) - CVE-2019-7548 python-sqlalchemy: SQL Injection when the group_by parameter can be controlled
Summary: CVE-2019-7548 python-sqlalchemy: SQL Injection when the group_by parameter ca...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-7548
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1674060 1678523 1678524 1678525 1678526 1678527 1678528 1678530 1678531 1678532 1678533 1678534 1678535 1678733 1693968 1693978 1695754 1697624
Blocks: 1674063
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-02-08 22:01 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:47:27 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:0981 0 None None None 2019-05-07 04:19:59 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:0984 0 None None None 2019-05-07 04:20:30 UTC

Description Laura Pardo 2019-02-08 22:01:55 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in SQLAlchemy 1.2.17. An SQL Injection when the group_by parameter can be controlled.


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https://github.com/no-security/sqlalchemy_test
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2019-02-08 22:02:07 UTC 
Created python-sqlalchemy tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1674060]
Comment 2 Joshua Padman 2019-02-15 12:31:06 UTC 
Red Hat OpenStack uses the python-sqlalchemy library and the versions provided contain the vulnerable code. However, the vulnerability is not exposed in a way that would be exploitable within a Red Hat OpenStack installation.
Comment 3 Doran Moppert 2019-02-19 02:10:28 UTC 
This flaw is related to CVE-2019-7164 (bug 1678520) and is fixed by the same upstream patch.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/commit/30307c4616ad67c01ddae2e1e8e34fabf6028414
Comment 4 Doran Moppert 2019-02-19 02:12:02 UTC 
This issue has been rated Moderate because it is not common in SQLAlchemy backed applications for the group_by parameter to be populated by an externally-controlled string. The upstream issue has more discussion about safe use of group_by and order_by.
Comment 9 Michael Bayer 2019-02-20 16:25:15 UTC 
Hi Hardik -

can you please clarify that you are aware of an application that is passing untrusted input to group_by()?   Note there are many functions and methods in SQLAlchemy which accept SQL string fragments that are rendered as-is, as they are expected to be just that, SQL fragments.
Comment 10 Hardik Vyas 2019-02-21 08:35:43 UTC 
Hello Michael,

No, I looked into calamari-server only. In Ceph, SQLAlchemy is used in calamari server. I can't see any way to exploit the calamari webapp via a web browser in a meaningful way. Marked Ceph as affected based on presence of vulnerable code and positive results from the POC against the bundled version 0.8.3 of python-sqlalchemy. I'll modify the flaw statement accordingly for the Ceph product to be more sensible.
Comment 11 Hardik Vyas 2019-02-21 08:36:31 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects the versions of python-sqlalchemy(bundled in calamari-server) shipped with Red Hat Ceph Storage 2. However, this flaw is not known to be exploitable in any meaningful way within calamari webapp. A future update may address this issue.
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2019-05-07 04:19:58 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2019:0981 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0981
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2019-05-07 04:20:29 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2019:0984 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0984
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