CVE-2020-13568 — SQL injection vulnerability exists in phpGACL 3

SQL injection vulnerability exists in phpGACL 3.3.7. A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to a SQL injection. An attacker can send an HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability in admin/edit_group.php, when the POST parameter action is “Submit”, the POST parameter parent_id

01What is this vulnerability?

SQL injection vulnerability exists in phpGACL 3.3.7. A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to a SQL injection. An attacker can send an HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability in admin/edit_group.php, when the POST parameter action is “Submit”, the POST parameter parent_id leads to a SQL injection.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / phpGACL	OpenEMR 5.0.2, OpenEMR development version 6.0.0 (commit babec93f600ff1394f91ccd512bcad85832eb6ce), phpGACL 3.3.7

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2021-04-13T15:00:28.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T12:25:16.043Z

09References

• talosintelligence.com — https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1179