# CVE-2024-39677: NHibernate SQL injection vulnerability in discriminator mappings, static fields referenced in HQL, and some utilities

- Also known as: GHSA-FG4Q-CCQ8-3R5Q
- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.4.9, 5.5.2
- Published: 2024-07-08 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- nhibernate nhibernate-core: fixed in 5.4.9; from 5.5.0, fixed in 5.5.2
- NHibernate (NuGet): fixed in 5.4.9
- NHibernate (NuGet): from 5.5.0, fixed in 5.5.2

## Description

NHibernate is an object-relational mapper for the .NET framework. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in some types implementing ILiteralType.ObjectToSQLString. Callers of these methods are exposed to the vulnerability, which includes mappings using inheritance with discriminator values; HQL queries referencing a static field of the application; users of the SqlInsertBuilder and SqlUpdateBuilder utilities, calling their AddColumn overload taking a literal value; and any direct use of the ObjectToSQLString methods for building SQL queries on the user side. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.4.9 and 5.5.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on nhibernate nhibernate-core, NHibernate, upgrade to a fixed version (5.4.9, 5.5.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/nhibernate/nhibernate-core/security/advisories/GHSA-fg4q-ccq8-3r5q
- https://github.com/nhibernate/nhibernate-core/issues/3516
- https://github.com/nhibernate/nhibernate-core/pull/3517
- https://github.com/nhibernate/nhibernate-core/pull/3547
- https://github.com/nhibernate/nhibernate-core/commit/b4a69d1a5ff5744312478d70308329af496e4ba9

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