{"id":59661,"date":"2025-07-26T16:24:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-04T04:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:31:26","slug":"cve-2025-49876-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-metagauss-profilegrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49876-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-metagauss-profilegrid\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-49876: SQL Injection Vulnerability in Metagauss ProfileGrid<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world of cybersecurity is constantly evolving, with new threats and vulnerabilities being discovered every day. One such vulnerability, CVE-2025-49876, is a significant concern, particularly because it affects the popular Metagauss ProfileGrid software. As a result, a wide range of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-36600-dell-bios-improper-access-control-vulnerability-allows-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70165\">systems and networks are potentially<\/a> at risk. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-54451-code-injection-vulnerability-in-samsung-electronics-magicinfo-9-server\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"67584\">vulnerability is an instance of SQL Injection<\/a>, a common and dangerous type of cyber attack that can lead to severe consequences.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-45346-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-bacula-web-resulting-in-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"67862\">SQL Injection vulnerabilities<\/a> are problematic because they give the attacker a way to interfere with the queries that an application makes to its database. With this kind of access, an attacker can manipulate these queries to view <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-50060-critical-data-access-vulnerability-in-oracle-bi-publisher\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"70164\">data they shouldn&#8217;t be able to access<\/a>, modify or delete data, or even gain administrative rights on the system. The risk posed by this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-47998-severe-heap-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-windows-routing-and-remote-access-service\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"67585\">vulnerability is underscored by its high CVSS Severity<\/a> Score of 8.5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-49876<br \/>\nSeverity: Critical CVSS 8.5<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-27050-memory-corruption-vulnerability-leading-to-potential-system-compromise-and-data-leakage\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"74870\">Potential system compromise or data<\/a> leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-177788374\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>Metagauss ProfileGrid | Up to 5.9.5.2<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability arises from the improper neutralization of special elements used in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-7097-critical-command-injection-vulnerability-in-comodo-internet-security-premium\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"68245\">SQL<\/a> command. In other words, the software does not properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in SQL queries. This means that a potential attacker can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-54444-unrestricted-file-upload-leading-to-code-injection-in-samsung-electronics-magicinfo-9-server\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"67586\">inject malicious SQL code<\/a> into the user input, which is then executed by the database, leading to SQL Injection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2788663338\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a conceptual example of how an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-42959-unauthenticated-replay-attack-exploiting-hmac-reuse\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"74871\">attacker might exploit<\/a> this vulnerability. They could send a malicious HTTP request that looks like this:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">POST \/metagauss\/profilegrid\/api\/login HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nContent-Type: application\/x-www-form-urlencoded\nusername=admin&#039; OR &#039;1&#039;=&#039;1&#039;; -- &amp;password=pass<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the attacker is trying to log in as an admin user. The `&#8217; OR &#8216;1&#8217;=&#8217;1&#8242;; &#8212; ` part of the username is the malicious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-8715-arbitrary-code-and-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-postgresql\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"78770\">SQL code<\/a>. Because `1` will always equal `1`, this will always evaluate to true, bypassing the need for a password. The `&#8211;` part is a comment symbol in SQL, meaning that everything after it will be ignored. This allows the attacker to ignore the password check entirely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommendation for Mitigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To mitigate this vulnerability, users are urged to apply the latest vendor patch. If a patch is not immediately available or cannot be applied right away, a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can provide temporary mitigation by detecting and preventing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-4784-critical-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-moderec-tourtella\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"68430\">SQL Injection<\/a> attacks. As a longer-term solution, it is recommended to always sanitize user inputs in the application before they are used in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-8279-critical-input-validation-vulnerability-in-gitlab-language-server\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"68808\">SQL<\/a> queries to prevent this type of vulnerability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The world of cybersecurity is constantly evolving, with new threats and vulnerabilities being discovered every day. One such vulnerability, CVE-2025-49876, is a significant concern, particularly because it affects the popular Metagauss ProfileGrid software. As a result, a wide range of systems and networks are potentially at risk. 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