CVE-2023-22578
Sequelizejs Sequelize ≤ 6.29.0
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2023-22578 is a critical-severity Improper Filtering of Special Elements (CWE-790) vulnerability in Sequelizejs Sequelize. Its CVSS base score is 10.0 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 43% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-0694
Vulnerability Data
Due to improper artibute filtering in the sequalize js library, can a attacker peform SQL injections.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
A.8.25 mandates secure SDLC practices including secure coding guidelines, security requirements, checkpoints, testing (scans/penetration), and developer training that reach improper filtering of special elements, but leaves a bounded remainder (e.g. incomplete enforcement across all languages, second-order filtering, or outsourced development without full assurance).
A.8.26 requires identifying and specifying requirements (including resilience against SQL injections, input validation, and output controls) that can stop exploitation of improper filtering, but does not itself implement or enforce those filters.
A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (including distrust external input, data validation/sanitization, defense-in-depth, and secure architecture reviews against attack patterns), which reaches a minority slice of CWE-790 by guiding developers to filter special elements before downstream use; most instances arise from incomplete or missing implementation of those principles.
Secure coding standards require proper filtering and encoding of special elements before downstream processing.
Security testing can detect improper filtering but does not itself implement the filtering control.
Hardening callouts derived
DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.
- No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-790, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.