CVE-2012-10047

Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution v6.x SQL Injection

Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution versions 6.x is vulnerable to a SQL injection flaw in its login mechanism. The username parameter in the auth-login POST request is not properly sanitized, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary SQL statements. This can be leveraged to write and execute a malicious PHP file on disk, resulting in remote code execution under the SYSTEM user context.

Affected

Cyclope-Series · Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution

CVSS v4.0 VULNCHECK

10.0 CRITICALCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS

1.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 71st percentile

Published

2025-08-08

Updated

2026-07-28

Proof-of-concept exploits (3)

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/win…
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20393
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20501

Metasploit modules (1)

• rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/http/cyclope_ess_sqli.rb

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry