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CVE-2021-39165: Unauthenticated SQL Injection

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-08-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

Cachet is an open source status page. With Cachet prior to and including 2.3.18, there is a SQL injection which is in the `SearchableTrait#scopeSearch()`. Attackers without authentication can utilize this vulnerability to exfiltrate sensitive data from the database such as administrator's password and session. The original repository of Cachet <https://github.com/CachetHQ/Cachet> is not active, the stable version 2.3.18 and it's developing 2.4 branch is affected.

Affected products

• fiveai Cachet: before 2.3.18 — fixed in 2.3.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: fiveai Cachet 2.3.18. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/fiveai/Cachet/commit/27bca8280419966ba80c6fa283d985ddffa84bb6
• https://github.com/fiveai/Cachet/security/advisories/GHSA-79mg-4w23-4fqc
• https://github.com/fiveai/Cachet/commit/27bca8280419966ba80c6fa283d985ddffa84bb6
• https://github.com/fiveai/Cachet/security/advisories/GHSA-79mg-4w23-4fqc

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