March 31, 2023, 2:51 p.m. | Nick Miles

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Contec CONPROSYS HMI System (CHS) Unauthenticated SQLi

There is an SQL injection vulnerability in Contec CONPROSYS HMI System (CHS) 3.5.1. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit it to enumerate a CHS database.


CHS logs login attempts to the dbo.m_user_login table in a PostgreSQL database:



from: auth_login.php
<...snip...>
$v = d5::v(); // get client IP address
if ($l != null) {
$p = ad(time());
$q = new d5($i, null, null, 'dbo.m_user_login');
try {
$q->_a(_S34_, "'" . $o . "','" . $l->l …

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