CVE-2018-6521

The sqlauth module in SimpleSAMLphp before 1.15.2 relies on the MySQL utf8 charset, which truncates queries upon encountering four-byte characters. There might be a scenario in which this allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-02-02

Last modified

2024-08-05

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Simplesamlphp (Simplesamlphp)

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00008.html
• https://simplesamlphp.org/security/201801-03
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4127