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CVE-2012-10047: Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution v6.x SQL Injection
- Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v4.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-08-08 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-89
Description
Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution versions 6.x are vulnerable to a SQL injection flaw in its login mechanism. The username parameter in the auth-login POST request is not properly sanitized, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary SQL statements. This can be leveraged to write and execute a malicious PHP file on disk, resulting in remote code execution under the SYSTEM user context.
Affected products
References
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/http/cyclope_ess_sqli.rb
- https://www.cyclope-series.com/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20393
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20501
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cyclope-employee-surveillance-solution-sql-injection
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/http/cyclope_ess_sqli.rb
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20393
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20501
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