GHSA-rfx3-98h7-v3xp
Marten's LINQ provider has SQL injection via unescaped string literals
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
Several code paths in Marten's LINQ provider and tenant-management internals interpolated a runtime, potentially attacker-influenced value into generated SQL as a single-quoted string literal without escaping or parameterization. A value containing a single quote (`'`) could break out of the literal and inject arbitrary SQL.
The primary vector is a `Dictionary<,>` indexer **key** used in a `Where` filter — `Where(x => x.Attributes[key] == v)` — a common "filter by attribute name" / EAV pattern. It is confirmed with an executed proof-of-concept and yields filter / multi-tenant authorization bypass (returning other tenants' rows) and blind data exfiltration. Where the application permits `;`-batched statements (Npgsql default), data modification is also possible.
## Affected sinks
- `Linq/Members/Dictionaries/DictionaryItemMember.cs` — dictionary indexer key (primary, confirmed PoC)
- `Linq/Members/Dictionaries/DictionaryContainsKeyFilter.cs` — `Dictionary.ContainsKey(key)` (Newtonsoft serializer only; System.Text.Json escapes the quote)
- `Linq/Parsing/SelectParser.cs` — a constant string projected through `Select(x => new { L = runtimeString })`
- `Internal/Operations/DeleteAllForTenant.cs` — tenant id reaching per-tenant projection teardown via `IEventStore.DeleteProjectionProgressAsync` (an in-code comment wrongly claimed the value was validated)
- `Schema/DatabaseScopedTenantPartitions.cs` — tenant id inlined into `FOR VALUES IN ('...')` partition DDL
- `Events/Daemon/Internals/EventLoader.cs` (defense-in-depth) — per-tenant partition-pruning literal
## Proof of concept (primary vector)
Benign: `x.Attributes["nonexistent-key"] == "v"` returns 0 rows. Attack: `x.Attributes["nonexistent' = '' or 1=1 --"] == "v"` returns all rows. Generated SQL:
```
select d.data from public.mt_doc_doc as d where d.data -> 'Attributes' ->> 'x' or 1=1 --' = :p0;
```
## Fix
Each sink now escapes embedded single quotes (`.Replace("'", "''")`, mirroring the existing `Ordering.BuildNgramRankExpression`) or binds the value as a parameter (`DeleteAllForTenant`). Where a literal is retained for partition pruning, escaping preserves plan-time pruning while closing the injection. Regression tests lock down each vector.
## Workarounds
Until upgrading: do not pass untrusted input as a dictionary indexer key / `ContainsKey` argument / `Select` constant, nor as a tenant id into projection teardown or provisioning; and disable multi-statement command batching to limit blast radius.
## Credit
Reported privately and responsibly by an external security researcher with an executed PoC. Additional sinks found during the follow-up LINQ-wide audit.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/JasperFx/marten/security/advisories/GHSA-rfx3-98h7-v3xp
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75513
- https://github.com/JasperFx/marten/pull/4911
- https://github.com/JasperFx/marten/commit/61882d0424854cb48703f08bdb246894ac576bed
- https://github.com/JasperFx/marten
- https://github.com/JasperFx/marten/releases/tag/8.37.4
- https://github.com/JasperFx/marten/releases/tag/9.13.0