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7.5

Drizzle ORM fails to protect against malicious database input

CVE-2026-39356 GHSA-gpj5-g38j-94v9
Summary

If you use Drizzle ORM, an attacker could potentially inject malicious code into your database by manipulating the text you send to the database. This is fixed in versions 0.45.2 and 1.0.0-beta.20. Update to a fixed version to protect your database.

What to do
  • Update GitHub Actions drizzle-orm to version 0.45.2.
  • Update GitHub Actions drizzle-orm to version 1.0.0-beta.20.
Affected software
VendorProductAffected versionsFix available
GitHub Actions drizzle-orm <= 0.45.2 0.45.2
GitHub Actions drizzle-orm > 1.0.0-beta.2 , <= 1.0.0-beta.20 1.0.0-beta.20
Original title
Drizzle ORM has SQL injection via improperly escaped SQL identifiers
Original description
### Summary

Drizzle ORM improperly escaped quoted SQL identifiers in its dialect-specific `escapeName()` implementations. In affected versions, embedded identifier delimiters were not escaped before the identifier was wrapped in quotes or backticks.

As a result, applications that pass attacker-controlled input to APIs that construct SQL identifiers or aliases, such as `sql.identifier()`, `.as()`, may allow an attacker to terminate the quoted identifier and inject SQL.

### Affected components

The issue affects the identifier escaping logic used by the PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, SingleStore, and Gel dialects.

### Impact

This issue only affects applications that pass untrusted runtime input into identifier or alias construction. Common examples include dynamic sorting, dynamic report builders, and CTE or alias names derived from request parameters.

Depending on the database dialect, query context, and database permissions, successful exploitation may enable blind or direct data disclosure, schema enumeration, query manipulation, privilege escalation, or destructive operations.

Applications that use only static schema objects, or that strictly map user input through an allowlist of known column or alias names, are not affected.

### Details

In affected versions, `escapeName()` wrapped the identifier but did not escape the quote delimiter inside the identifier value:

- PostgreSQL / SQLite / Gel: `"` was not doubled to `""`
- MySQL / SingleStore: `` ` `` was not doubled to `` `` ``

Because of this, crafted input containing the dialect-specific identifier delimiter could break out of the quoted identifier and be interpreted as SQL syntax.

A representative vulnerable pattern is dynamic sorting using untrusted input:

```ts
const sortField = req.query.sort || 'id';

const rows = await db
.select()
.from(users)
.orderBy(sql.identifier(sortField));
nvd CVSS3.1 7.5
Vulnerability type
CWE-89 SQL Injection
Published: 8 Apr 2026 · Updated: 8 Apr 2026 · First seen: 7 Apr 2026