# CVE-2020-11010: SQL injection in Tortoise ORM

- Also known as: GHSA-9J2C-X8QM-QMJQ, PYSEC-2020-144
- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.15.23, 0.16.6
- Published: 2020-04-20 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- tortoise tortoise-orm: fixed in 0.15.23; from 0.16.0, fixed in 0.16.6
- tortoise-orm (PyPI): fixed in 0.15.23
- tortoise-orm (PyPI): from 0.16.0, fixed in 0.16.6
- tortoise-orm (PyPI): fixed in 0.15.23; from 0.16.0, fixed in 0.16.6

## Description

In Tortoise ORM before versions 0.15.23 and 0.16.6, various forms of SQL injection have been found for MySQL and when filtering or doing mass-updates on char/text fields. SQLite & PostgreSQL are only affected when filtering with contains, starts_with, or ends_with filters (and their case-insensitive counterparts).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on tortoise tortoise-orm, tortoise-orm, upgrade to a fixed version (0.15.23, 0.16.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/tortoise/tortoise-orm/security/advisories/GHSA-9j2c-x8qm-qmjq
- https://github.com/tortoise/tortoise-orm/commit/91c364053e0ddf77edc5442914c6f049512678b3

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