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openSIS-Classic EUVDEUVD-2026-89799

| CVE-2026-103115 LOW
SQL Injection (CWE-89)
2026-09-30 VulDB GHSA-8f97-qp65-8hm6
2.1
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: VulDB
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate with low-privileged account
  2. Delivery
    Access Student Search feature
  3. Exploit
    Inject SQL via 'cust' parameter
  4. Execution
    Query executes in CustomFieldsFnc.php
  5. Impact
    Extract database records

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Parameterized queries, prepared statements
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Persistence

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Requires a valid authenticated session on the openSIS-Classic web application (PR:L - a low-privileged account such as staff or teacher suffices) and access to the Student Search component, which invokes functions/CustomFieldsFnc.php. The attack is triggered by manipulating the 'cust' argument and needs no user interaction (UI:N) and no special non-default configuration. Limiting factors: the authentication requirement excludes anonymous internet attackers, and the product's education-only, small-scale deployment narrows the exposed population; no vendor patch is confirmed, but the credentialed prerequisite is the main practical brake on exploitation.

Impact

This is a high-CVSS-but-moderate-real-risk issue. The vendor CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L) scores 5.3 (medium), with PR:L confirming authentication is required - an attacker needs a valid low-privileged account on the openSIS-Classic instance before reaching the vulnerable Student Search code path. The Exploit Maturity is E:P (proof-of-concept), consistent with a public exploit being released via the GitHub issue tracker (issue #475) but with NO evidence of active exploitation: this CVE is NOT in CISA KEV, and no EPSS score is provided. There is thus a clear gap between exploit availability (POC exists) and exploitation activity (none confirmed). The vendor rated impact as only VC/VI/VA:L (partial across the board), which understates a classic SQL injection - successful injection typically yields at least full read of the application database (C:H). The signals are internally consistent (POC-backed, authenticated, network-reachable) but point to a targeted, credentialed-insider or post-compromise scenario rather than mass exploitation, especially given the product's small footprint. Priority: low-to-medium - patch when able, but the authentication barrier and niche deployment limit urgency.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker with a low-privileged authenticated account (e.g., a teacher or staff login) on an openSIS-Classic deployment navigates to the Student Search feature and supplies a crafted value in the 'cust' parameter that is concatenated into a SQL query in functions/CustomFieldsFnc.php. This injects attacker-controlled SQL, allowing extraction of student and staff records or other database contents. A public proof-of-concept exists (GitHub issue #475), lowering the skill required to reproduce the attack.

Monitor Track and reassess. Why: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9).
No patch listed yet 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026

SQL injection in OS4ED openSIS-Classic (up to and including version 9.3) lets an authenticated low-privileged user - a staff or teacher account is sufficient - manipulate the 'cust' argument handled by functions/CustomFieldsFnc.php in the Student Search component and read or partially modify the backend database, including student records. Publicly available exploit code exists, and the vendor was notified through a public GitHub issue but has not responded, so no vendor-released patch is identified at time of analysis. This is a high-CVSS-but-moderate-real-risk issue: the requirement for a valid authenticated session and the product's education-sector, small-scale deployments meaningfully narrow the exposed population.

RemediationAI

No vendor-released patch is identified at time of analysis - the project was notified via GitHub issue 475 (https://github.com/OS4ED/openSIS-Classic/issues/475) and has not responded, and no fixed version has been published, so teams must rely on compensating controls. First, restrict the Student Search / custom-fields functionality at the web tier: if custom-field searching is not operationally required, disable or block the endpoint that calls functions/CustomFieldsFnc.php (this removes the attack path entirely, at the cost of losing custom-field filtering for staff). Second, where it is required, limit access to the staff/teacher portal to trusted networks, VPN, or an allowlisted set of source IPs - this directly breaks the network-reachability precondition but is disruptive for off-campus staff working from home or mobile devices. Third, deploy a WAF or reverse-proxy rule that inspects the 'cust' parameter for SQL metacharacters, UNION/stacked-query patterns, and boolean tautologies (helpful but bypassable by encoding tricks and prone to false positives on legitimate field names). Fourth, apply least privilege to the database account used by the application and rotate its credentials, so a successful injection is confined to the minimum schema needed by openSIS (reduces blast radius but does not prevent exfiltration of the student data that account can already read). Fifth, enable database and web-server logging and alerting for anomalous query volume or UNION/SLEEP patterns coming from the Student Search path, since POC code is public. Monitor the upstream repository and the VulDB entry (https://vuldb.com/vuln/411871) for a patched release and apply it as soon as a fixed version is published.

Affected VersionsENISA

openSIS-Classic 9.3
openSIS-Classic 9.0
openSIS-Classic 9.2
openSIS-Classic 9.1

Affected Packages

euvd opensis_classic no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The affected code lives in functions/CustomFieldsFnc.php, a PHP component of the openSIS-Classic student information system that builds the custom-field filtering logic used by the Student Search feature. The flaw is a classic SQL injection (CWE-89): the user-supplied 'cust' argument is concatenated into a SQL statement without parameterization or proper escaping, so an attacker's input is interpreted as SQL syntax by the application's MySQL backend rather than as data. The CPE entry cpe:2.3:a:os4ed:opensis-classic:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* is version-unbounded, but the description places the ceiling at 9.3. The supplied vector (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/E:P) and our independent 3.1 assessment (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N) agree on the key prerequisites: network-reachable, low complexity, no user interaction, no non-default configuration, and - critically - a low-privileged authenticated session (PR:L). Impact is highest on confidentiality (database read of student data) with limited integrity effect, since injected statements execute inside the request rather than through a persistent write path; the presence of an exploit maturity flag (E:P) reflects that public proof-of-concept code is already circulating.

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Severity by source

Vendor (VulDB) PRIMARY 2.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
vuln.today AI 7.1 HIGH

Network-reachable with low-privileged auth (PR:L) and no user interaction; SQLi typically yields full DB read (C:H) with limited write (I:L) and no availability impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (VulDB).

CVSS VectorVendor: VulDB

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
Low
Vulnerable system: Integrity
Low
Vulnerable system: Availability
Low
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
None
Subsequent system: Integrity
None
Subsequent system: Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Severity Changed
Sep 30, 2026 - 13:22 NVD
MEDIUM LOW
CVSS changed
Sep 30, 2026 - 13:22 NVD
5.3 (MEDIUM) 2.1 (LOW)
CVE Published
Sep 30, 2026 - 12:15 cve.org
MEDIUM 5.3

DescriptionCVE.org

A security flaw has been discovered in OS4ED openSIS-Classic up to 9.3. This affects an unknown function of the file functions/CustomFieldsFnc.php of the component Student Search. The manipulation of the argument cust results in sql injection. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 76% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche open-source PHP student information system, education-sector only
Exploit
POC
Public exploit code exists
Data Quality
7 sources
Confidence: High
EUVD NVD CVE.org EPSS Vulnrichment CIRCL GitHub VulDB

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity LOW
CISA KEV No
Public POC Yes
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
Poc
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Low
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

30
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +10
PoC: +20
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

SQL injection exploits the way applications construct database queries by mixing user input directly into SQL statements.

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