CVE Alert: CVE-2024-13174 – E1 Informatics – Web Application

Risk verdict

High risk overall; remote SQL injection with unauthenticated access potential, though current exploitation is not observed.

Why this matters

If exploited, attackers can read or modify sensitive data, and potentially exfiltrate credentials or other confidential information. The high confidentiality impact means a data breach could cascade into regulatory, financial, and reputational harm, even if availability remains only moderately affected.

Most likely attack path

An attacker could probe exposed web endpoints over the network and inject crafted input into vulnerable parameters without user interaction. Successful exploitation yields direct database access to read/modify data, with movement constrained by the database account’s privileges and unchanged scope, limiting impact to the affected data store rather than broader system compromise.

Who is most exposed

Public-facing web applications and portals that connect directly to databases are most at risk, especially where input validation and secure coding practices are weak or absent.

Detection ideas

• Unexpected SQL errors appearing in application logs
• Anomalous or unusually long input strings in HTTP parameters
• Spikes in database error counts or slow queries
• Increased 500 errors following external requests
• WAF/RASP alerts or signatures indicating SQLi payloads

Mitigation and prioritisation

• Apply vendor patch or implement parameterised queries and prepared statements immediately
• Enforce least-privilege database accounts and minimise dynamic SQL
• Strengthen input validation and escaping; use ORM or stored procedures
• Deploy WAF/RASP rules and enhance monitoring for SQL error patterns
• Change-management: test fixes in staging and schedule rapid deployment; If KEV is present or EPSS ≥ 0.5, treat as priority 1