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🛡️ GHSA-8mwq-mj73-qv68 — sequelize (CVE-2023-22578)

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-790 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Duplicate advisory: Sequelize vulnerable to Improper Filtering of Special Elements

Duplicate advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of [GHSA-f598-mfpv-gmfx](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f598-mfpv-gmfx). This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

Due to improper attribute filtering in the sequelize js library, an attacker can peform SQL injections. This issue can be mitigated by not accepting untrusted input.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

GHSA-8mwq-mj73-qv68 is classified as CWE-790: Improper Filtering of Special Elements. The product receives data from an upstream component, but does not filter or incorrectly filters special elements before sending it to a downstream component.

Affected software

GHSA-8mwq-mj73-qv68 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • @sequelize/core
  • sequelize

Timeline and source

Published on 16 February 2023 and last revised on 24 February 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
csirt.divd.nl (Web)
csirt.divd.nl (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-790
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-02-16
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2023-02-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
@sequelize/core — —
sequelize — —

Similar Threats

Exploit Protection

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