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CVE-2020-25638

A flaw was found in hibernate-core in versions prior to and including 5.4.23.Final. A SQL injection in the implementatio

A flaw was found in hibernate-core in versions prior to and including 5.4.23.Final. A SQL injection in the implementation of the JPA Criteria API can permit unsanitized literals when a literal is used in the SQL comments of the query. This flaw could allow an attacker to access unauthorized information or possibly conduct further attacks.

The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.

HIGH · CVSS 7.4 EPSS 0.00676
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-89Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CWE-89Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
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Affected Products & Versions

6
hibernate orm< 5.3.20
hibernate orm>= 5.4.0 and < 5.4.24
debian linuxall versions
quarkus<= 1.9.2
oracle communications cloud native core consoleall versions
oracle retail customer management and segmentation foundationall versions
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Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Maven org.hibernate:hibernate-core HIGH fixed in 5.4.24.Final
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Scoring & Timeline

7.4
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · secalert@redhat.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD02 Dec 2020 · 03:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC triage · cisa-vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
SSVC asks the questions that actually drive patch urgency: is it being exploited, can attacks be automated, and how total is the impact.
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Vendor Advisories

21
rhsaRHSA-2025:9582Moderate
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2022:0593-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2022:0225-1
rhsaRHSA-2021:3140Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2021:2562Moderate
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References & Sources

8
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1881353Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r833c1276e41334fa675848a08daf0c61f39009f9f9a400d9f7006d44%40%3Cdev.turbine.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf2378209c676a28b71f9b604a3b3517c448540b85367160e558ef9df%40%3Ccommits.turbine.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00000.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4908Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.htmlPatchThird Party Advisory
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