MikroORM: SQL injection via unvalidated order direction in orderBy
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- SQL injection
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-89.
Summary
MikroORM is a TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Prior to 6.6.16 and 7.1.7, the shared SQL layer validates the field key of an orderBy clause but does not validate its direction value before AbstractSqlPlatform.getOrderByExpression concatenates it into an ORDER BY clause. Applications that bind attacker-controlled request data to the direction in em.find(), em.findOne(), em.findAndCount(), QueryBuilder.orderBy(), or QueryBuilderHelper.getQueryOrderFromObject() can permit a raw SQL fragment that performs blind or boolean extraction of data available to the database account. The BaseMySqlPlatform and MsSqlPlatform fallthrough paths have the same behavior, affecting SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, libSQL, and Oracle drivers, while MongoDB is not affected. This issue is fixed in versions 6.6.16 and 7.1.7.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
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Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA mikro-orm (mikro-orm) Fixed in 6.6.16, 7.1.7
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-84993
References
Other 7
- https://github.com/mikro-orm/mikro-orm/security/advisories/GHSA-7j79-7q93-6v69
- https://github.com/mikro-orm/mikro-orm/pull/7996
- https://github.com/mikro-orm/mikro-orm/pull/7997
- https://github.com/mikro-orm/mikro-orm/commit/3aba926fd07156f5e1ebf06294fd77ee1215bad5
- https://github.com/mikro-orm/mikro-orm/commit/89e5546bf8e10f8465682016a3bdf622ff55d8c5
- https://github.com/mikro-orm/mikro-orm/releases/tag/v6.6.16
- https://github.com/mikro-orm/mikro-orm/releases/tag/v7.1.7
More mikro-orm vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-26515 MikroORM is vulnerable to SQL Injection via specially crafted object CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-32576 MikroORM: SQL injection via runtime-controlled identifiers and JSON-path keys CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6
- TI-2026-26516 MikroORM has Prototype Pollution in Utils.merge CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
Sources
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