Stirling-Tools Stirling-PDF up to 3.2.0 SQL Validation DatabaseService.validateSqlContent incomplete blacklist

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A vulnerability was found in Stirling-Tools Stirling-PDF up to 3.2.0. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function DatabaseService.validateSqlContent of the component SQL Validation. Such manipulation leads to incomplete blacklist. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-113605. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Stirling-Tools Stirling-PDF up to 3.2.0. Affected by this issue is the function DatabaseService.validateSqlContent of the component SQL Validation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a incomplete blacklist vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-184. The product implements a protection mechanism that relies on a list of inputs (or properties of inputs) that are not allowed by policy or otherwise require other action to neutralize before additional processing takes place, but the list is incomplete, leading to resultant weaknesses. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Stirling-PDF from 2.13.2 through 3.2.0 contains an incomplete denylist in DatabaseService.validateSqlContent() that allows administrators to bypass H2 import restrictions using CREATE OR REPLACE ALIAS. Authenticated administrators can upload a crafted SQL backup to the import-database endpoint, where RUNSCRIPT defines H2 Java function aliases and restores Java-method execution.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-113605 since 10/20/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 10/20/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1562.006.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Stirling-Tools

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• Stirling-PDF

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• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2.0

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