CVE-2017-5663

high

Published 2017-12-14 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

6.5

VIR risk

8.8

Description

In Apache Fineract 0.4.0-incubating, 0.5.0-incubating, and 0.6.0-incubating, an authenticated user with client/loan/center/staff/group read permissions is able to inject malicious SQL into SELECT queries. The 'sqlSearch' parameter on a number of endpoints is not sanitized and appended directly to the query.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
apache	fineract	`0.4.0-incubating`
apache	fineract	`0.5.0-incubating`
apache	fineract	`0.6.0-incubating`

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/757feeffe45a75d3c0d08b551e71fabdae5d352543be2342b6ba2c93%40%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/757feeffe45a75d3c0d08b551e71fabdae5d352543be2342b6ba2c93%40%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E

CWEs

CWE-89

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