# CVE-2023-30625: rudder-server - SQLi

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2023-30625 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2023-30625

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 8.8
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Rudderlabs rudder-server
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection'))

## Description

rudder-server is part of RudderStack, an open source Customer Data Platform (CDP). Versions of rudder-server prior to 1.3.0-rc.1 are vulnerable to SQL injection. This issue may lead to Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to the `rudder` role in PostgresSQL having superuser permissions by default. Version 1.3.0-rc.1 contains patches for this issue.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2023-30625](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2023-30625) is a vulnerability in the rudder-server component of RudderStack, where a SQL injection issue can allow attackers to achieve remote code execution by leveraging database superuser permissions.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 5th of March 2025.

CrowdSec network observations suggest that most exploitation of CVE-2023-30625 involves focused reconnaissance to identify viable targets. Attackers typically tailor their campaigns based on system exposure and configuration. It is unlikely that a given attack is accidental.
CrowdSec network telemetry also shows that exploitation of CVE-2023-30625 has significantly declined over the past week. Attack volumes are well below the long-term average, suggesting attackers are rapidly losing interest. The vulnerability appears to be falling out of active use across most threat landscapes.

Detected exploitation attempts are characterized by access to URLs containing `/v1/warehouse/pending-events`.

## Timeline

- 2023-06-16: CVE Published. CVE-2023-30625 is published to NVD.
- 2025-03-05: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2023-30625 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-03-06: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2023-30625 for the first time.

## References

- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-097_rudder-server/
- https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/pull/2652
- https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/pull/2663
- https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/pull/2664
- https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/commit/0d061ff2d8c16845179d215bf8012afceba12a30
- https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/commit/2f956b7eb3d5eb2de3e79d7df2c87405af25071e
- https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/commit/9c009d9775abc99e72fc470f4c4c8e8f1775e82a
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-30625.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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