What is CVE-2018-14623?

CVE-2018-14623 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Theforeman Katello, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2018-12-14.

How severe is CVE-2018-14623?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

SQL Injection in Theforeman Katello

CVE-2018-14623

A SQL injection flaw was found in katello's errata-related API. An authenticated remote attacker can craft input data to force a malformed SQL query to the backend database, which will leak internal IDs. This is issue is related to an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-3072. Version 3.10 and older is vulnerable.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

Published 2018-12-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (72.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-24.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 72.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Theforeman Katello
The Foreman Project Katello — versions 3.10 and older

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/106224 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-14623?: CVE-2018-14623 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Theforeman Katello, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2018-12-14.
How severe is CVE-2018-14623?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.