CVE-2018-1289: Apache Fineract

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Apache Fineract versions 1.0.0, 0.6.0-incubating, 0.5.0-incubating, 0.4.0-incubating, the system exposes different REST end points to query domain specific entities with a Query Parameter 'orderBy' and 'sortOrder' which are appended directly with SQL statements. A hacker/user can inject/draft the 'orderBy' and 'sortOrder' query parameter in such a way to read/update the data for which he doesn't have authorization.

Affected products

• Apache Fineract: version 0.4.0 only; version 0.5.0 only; version 0.6.0 only; version 1.0.0 only

Published 2018-04-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.