VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-5383

medium
Published 2014-08-21 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in AlienVault OSSIM before 4.7.0 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-33317 webapps php
Chris Hebert · 2014-05-12

Alienvault Open Source SIEM (OSSIM) 4.6.1 - (Authenticated) SQL Injection (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_gather/alienvault_newpolicyform_sqli rank 300
AlienVault Authenticated SQL Injection Arbitrary File Read
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management{"endIncluding":"4.6.1"}
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management1.0.4
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management1.0.6
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management2.1
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management2.1.2
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management2.1.5
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management2.1.5-1
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management2.1.5-2
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management2.1.5-3
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management3.1
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management3.1.9
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management3.1.10
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management3.1.12
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.0
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.0.3
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.0.4
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.1
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.1.2
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.1.3
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.2
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.2.2
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.2.3
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.3
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.3.1
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.3.2
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.3.3
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.4
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.5
alienvaultopen_source_security_information_management4.6

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.