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GHSA-xv6x-43gq-4hfj

PyGreSQL Might Be Vulnerable to Encoding-Based SQL Injection

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2009-2940

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI PyGreSQL <= 3.8.1 no fix listed
PyPI PyGreSQL >= 4.0, < 4.1 4.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

PyGreSQL 3.8 did not use PostgreSQL’s safe `string` and `bytea` functions in its own escaping functions. As a result, applications written to use PyGreSQL’s escaping functions are vulnerable to SQL injections when processing certain multi-byte character sequences. Because the safe functions require a database connection, to maintain backwards compatibility, `pg.escape_string()` and `pg.escape_bytea()` are still available, but applications will have to be adjusted to use the new `pyobj.escape_string()` and `pyobj.escape_bytea()` functions. For example, code containing: ```python import pg connection = pg.connect(...) escaped = pg.escape_string(untrusted_input) ``` should be adjusted to use: ```python import pg connection = pg.connect(...) escaped = connection.escape_string(untrusted_input) ```

References

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