cApexWEB "dfuserid" and "dfpassword" SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
Description
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in cApexWEB, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via the "dfuserid" and "dfpassword" parameters to capexweb/servlet/capexweb.parentvalidatepassword is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
NOTE: This can further be exploited to bypass the authentication mechanism.
Vulnerable Products
Vulnerable Software: cApexWEB
Solution
Filter malicious characters and character sequences using a proxy.