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Salary Management SystemApplication · Leyan

CVE-2022-38116

CRITICAL · 9.8 CVSS v3.1 Published 2022-08-30
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 2022-06-06 or later.
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Le-yan Personnel and Salary Management System has hard-coded database account and password within the website source code. An unauthenticated remote attacker can access, modify system data or disrupt service.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · high confidence

Le-yan Personnel and Salary Management System contains hard-coded database credentials embedded directly in the website source code. An unauthenticated remote attacker can leverage these credentials to gain direct database access, allowing them to view, modify, or delete personnel and salary records, or disrupt the service entirely.

MitigationRemove all hard-coded database credentials from the source code immediately and rotate the exposed credentials. Implement a secure secrets management solution such as environment variables, a secrets vault, or encrypted configuration files, and conduct a thorough code review to identify any other hard-coded credentials.

Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.

Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Salary Management SystemApplication
Affected:< 2022-06-06

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify the Leyan Salary Management System version
    Locate and inspect the application version information, typically found in the software's about page, a version file, or the main application header. Check any version manifest or configuration file included with the installation.
    Affected if The installed version is earlier than the 2022-06-06 release date (any version number indicating a build before June 6, 2022).
  2. Search source code for hard-coded database credentials
    Inspect all source code files (especially configuration files, connection handlers, and database interaction modules) for hard-coded strings that resemble database credentials, such as connection strings containing 'password=', 'user id=', 'uid=', or similar authentication parameters with literal values.
    Affected if Any source code file contains database credentials written directly as literal strings rather than being retrieved from environment variables, a vault, or encrypted configuration.
  3. Examine database connection configuration files
    Review all files responsible for database connectivity, including config files, properties files, and initialization scripts, looking for embedded username and password fields with static values.
    Affected if Database connection files contain hard-coded usernames and passwords that are visible in plain text.
  4. Verify credential storage mechanism
    Check whether the application retrieves database credentials from external sources such as environment variables, a secrets management service, or encrypted configuration files. Inspect the code paths that handle database authentication.
    Affected if The application does not use external secrets management and instead relies on credentials embedded directly in the source code.

A user is affected if they are running any version of Leyan Salary Management System prior to the 2022-06-06 release and the source code contains hard-coded database credentials in plain text.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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AI-assisted, checked against the advisory. Informational, not a guarantee.

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 2022-06-06 or later
Fixed in 2022-06-06
Interim mitigation

Remove all hard-coded database credentials from the source code immediately and rotate the exposed credentials. Implement a secure secrets management solution such as environment variables, a secrets vault, or encrypted configuration files, and conduct a thorough code review to identify any other hard-coded credentials.

Recommended fix Moderate confidence

2022-06-06 or later

  1. Identify the current installed version of the Le-yan Personnel and Salary Management System
  2. Obtain the updated version (2022-06-06 or later) from the vendor or official distribution channel
  3. Before upgrading, backup the existing database and configuration files
  4. Upgrade the system to version 2022-06-06 or later
  5. After upgrade, verify that hard-coded credentials have been removed from source code
  6. Verify the application functions correctly with new credentials configuration
  7. Ensure database credentials are now stored securely (e.g., environment variables, secure configuration management) rather than embedded in source code

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

Fix this in Salary Management System Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation3.0 h
  • Implementation6.0 h
  • Testing3.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
14.0 hours of engineering $2,490
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