CVE-2016-10551: Balderdash Waterline-Sequel

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

waterline-sequel is a module that helps generate SQL statements for Waterline apps Any user input that goes into Waterline's `like`, `contains`, `startsWith`, or `endsWith` will end up in waterline-sequel with the potential for malicious code. A malicious user can input their own SQL statements in waterline-sequel 0.50 that will get executed and have full access to the database.

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Published 2018-05-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.