CVE-2022-36961 Orion Platform SQL Injection Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

What is CVE-2022-36961?

CVE-2022-36961 is a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in SolarWinds Orion Platform, published on 30 Sep 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerable component of Orion Platform was vulnerable to SQL Injection, an authenticated attacker could leverage this for privilege escalation or remote code execution.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-36961?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Solarwinds Orion Platform.

How do I fix CVE-2022-36961?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-36961 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.

Is CVE-2022-36961 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-36961 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in SolarWinds Orion Platform

• CVE-2020-10148 SolarWinds Orion Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27258 Privilege escalation in Orion Platform Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-25274 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-9546 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-13169 Cross-site scripting in n/a Critical 9.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-g8wp-3x9j-448g.