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Open Web Analytics Pre-Auth SQL Injection

January 19, 2014

Dell SecureWorks Security Advisory SWRX-2014-001

Advisory Information

  • Title: Open Web Analytics Pre-Auth SQL Injection
  • Advisory ID: SWRX-2014-001
  • Date published: Thursday, January 9, 2014
  • CVE: CVE-2014-1206
  • CVSS v2 base score: 7.5
  • Date of last update: Wednesday, January 8, 2014
  • Vendors contacted: Open Web Analytics
  • Release mode: Coordinated
  • Discovered by: Dana James Traversie, Dell SecureWorks

Summary

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is open source web analytics software that can track and analyze how visitors use websites and applications. OWA is vulnerable to SQL injection that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL statements in the context of the configured OWA database user without authenticating to the web application.

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