CVE-2016-4861

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

The (1) order and (2) group methods in Zend_Db_Select in the Zend Framework before 1.12.20 might allow remote attackers to conduct SQL injection attacks by leveraging failure to remove comments from an SQL statement before validation.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 23, 24, 25
Zend Technologies Zend Framework: through 1.12.19

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN18926672/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000158
https://framework.zend.com/security/advisory/ZF2016-03
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00012.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2JUKFTI6ABK7ZN7IEAGPCLAHCFANMID2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N27AV6AL6B4KGEP3VIMIHQ5LFAKF5FTU/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UR5HXNGIUSSIZKMSZYMPBEPZEZTYFTIT/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-10
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN18926672/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000158
https://framework.zend.com/security/advisory/ZF2016-03
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00012.html

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