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CVE-2026-38739 — ezpublish-legacy

HIGH

CVE-2026-38739 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.1) vulnerability in ezsystems/ezpublish-legacy. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.

ezsystems/ezpublish-legacy has a SQL injection in dfscleanup

Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
None yet
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Sep 10, 2026 · OSV.dev, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
🐘ezsystems/ezpublish-legacy

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Description

NB: All tags and branches in this repository are past their end of life, so the vulnerability will not be fixed. The advisory is posted on the request of the researcher, for the information of anyone who might still use this software.

Impact

There is a security vulnerability in eZ Publish Legacy, affecting the dfscleanup.php script and the _getFileList function of the eZDFSFileHandlerMySQLiBackend class (kernel/private/classes/clusterfilehandlers/dfsbackends/mysqli.php). The vulnerability allows an attacker with local shell access and sufficient privileges to run dfscleanup.php to perform a union-based SQL injection against the eZ Publish MySQL database, potentially exposing sensitive data such as user credentials.

It is known to affect the branch 2019.03, and it may well affect other branches.

Credit

The issue was found and reported by security auditor Timothé Ridel from Advens: https://www.advens.com/

Patches

None, the software is past its end of life.

Workarounds

None.

Resources

Affected Packages

1 total
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐘Packagistezsystems/ezpublish-legacyall versionsNo fix

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for ezsystems/ezpublish-legacy, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Remediation status

    No patched version of ezsystems/ezpublish-legacy has shipped for CVE-2026-38739 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    Until you can upgrade, make sure every query built from user input uses parameterised statements or a prepared-statement API rather than string concatenation, and reduce the database account's privileges so an injected query cannot read or alter data beyond what the feature needs.

Frequently Asked Questions

NB: All tags and branches in this repository are past their end of life, so the vulnerability will not be fixed. The advisory is posted on the request of the researcher, for the information of anyone who might still use this software. ### Impact There is a security vulnerability in eZ Publish Legacy, affecting the dfscleanup.php script and the `_getFileList` function of the `eZDFSFileHandlerMySQLiBackend` class (kernel/private/classes/clusterfilehandlers/dfsbackends/mysqli.php). The vulnerability allows an attacker with local shell access and sufficient privileges to run dfscleanup.php to per
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CVE-2026-38739: ezpublish-legacy SQL Injection (High 7.1)