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Description
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in elixir-ecto postgrex allows SQL Injection via the :comment option of Postgrex.stream/4. An attacker who can influence that value can close the comment delimiter with */ and extend the streamed statement with their own clauses, which execute under the connection's role. Ecto exposes the same option through Ecto.Repo.stream/2.
Postgrex appends the comment by concatenating it into the statement text sent in the Parse message, without escaping or rejecting */. The option is validated by comment_not_present!/1 at every other execution point; stream/4 never calls it. Because Parse accepts a single command, the injection is confined to the streamed statement and further statements cannot be chained.
This issue affects postgrex: from 0.19.3 before 0.22.4.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-89
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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-66
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SQL Injection
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / postgrex Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / elixir-ecto/postgrex Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Workarounds
Reject any :comment value containing */ or a null byte before passing it to Postgrex.stream/4 or Ecto.Repo.stream/2. Alternatively, build comments only from trusted values.
Configurations
The application must pass a :comment derived from untrusted input to Postgrex.stream/4 or Ecto.Repo.stream/2. Applications that omit the option or pass only static values are unaffected.
References
Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N