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CVE-2016-10551

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-05-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

waterline-sequel is a module that helps generate SQL statements for Waterline apps Any user input that goes into Waterline's `like`, `contains`, `startsWith`, or `endsWith` will end up in waterline-sequel with the potential for malicious code. A malicious user can input their own SQL statements in waterline-sequel 0.50 that will get executed and have full access to the database.

Affected products

• HackerOne waterline-sequel node module: 0.5.0

References

• https://github.com/balderdashy/waterline/issues/1219#issuecomment-157294530
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/115
• https://github.com/balderdashy/waterline/issues/1219#issuecomment-157294530
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/115

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