What is CVE-2023-31038?

CVE-2023-31038 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Log4cxx, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2023-05-08.

How severe is CVE-2023-31038?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

SQL Injection in Apache Log4cxx

CVE-2023-31038

SQL injection in Log4cxx when using the ODBC appender to send log messages to a database. No fields sent to the database were properly escaped for SQL injection. This has been the case since at least version 0.9.0(released 2003-08-06) …

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

EPSS: 0.016 (72.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Apache Log4cxx
Apache Software Foundation Log4cxx — versions 0.9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

security@apache.org (Exploit, vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-31038?: CVE-2023-31038 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Log4cxx, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2023-05-08.
How severe is CVE-2023-31038?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.