CVE-2024-40614 — EGroupware before 23

EGroupware before 23.1.20240624 mishandles an ORDER BY clause. This leads to json.php?menuaction=EGroupware\Api\Etemplate\Widget\Nextmatch::ajax_get_rows sort.id SQL injection by authenticated users for Address Book or InfoLog sorting.

01What is this vulnerability?

EGroupware before 23.1.20240624 mishandles an ORDER BY clause. This leads to json.php?menuaction=EGroupware\Api\Etemplate\Widget\Nextmatch::ajax_get_rows sort.id SQL injection by authenticated users for Address Book or InfoLog sorting.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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: 2024-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-11-25T14:31:24.497Z

09References

• syss.de — https://syss.de
• github.com — https://github.com/EGroupware/egroupware/releases/tag/23.1.20240624
• help.egroupware.org — https://help.egroupware.org/t/egroupware-maintenance-security-release-23-1-20240…
• github.com — https://github.com/EGroupware/egroupware/compare/23.1.20240430...23.1.20240624
• github.com — https://github.com/EGroupware/egroupware/commit/553829d30cc2ccdc0e5a8c5a0e16fa03…
• www.syss.de — https://www.syss.de/pentest-blog/sql-injection-schwachstelle-in-egroupware-syss-…
• www.syss.de — https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2024-047.t…