a critical patch of a patch for a Cisco Prime License Manager SQL fix . Cisco this week said it patchedVulnerability-related.PatchVulnerabilitya “ critical ” patch for its Prime License Manager ( PLM ) software that would let attackers execute random SQL queries . The Cisco Prime License Manager offers enterprise-wide management of user-based licensing , including license fulfillment . ReleasedVulnerability-related.PatchVulnerabilityin November , the first version of the Prime License Manager patch caused its own “ functional ” problems that Cisco was then forced to fixVulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability. That patch , called ciscocm.CSCvk30822_v1.0.k3.cop.sgn addressedVulnerability-related.PatchVulnerabilitythe SQL vulnerability but caused backup , upgrade and restore problems , and should no longer be used Cisco said . Cisco wrote that “ customers who have previously installedVulnerability-related.PatchVulnerabilitythe ciscocm.CSCvk30822_v1.0.k3.cop.sgn patch should upgradeVulnerability-related.PatchVulnerabilityto the ciscocm.CSCvk30822_v2.0.k3.cop.sgn patch to remediate the functional issues . InstallingVulnerability-related.PatchVulnerabilitythe v2.0 patch will first rollback the v1.0 patch and then installVulnerability-related.PatchVulnerabilitythe v2.0 patch. ” As for the vulnerability that started this process , Cisco says it “ is due to a lack of proper validation of user-supplied input in SQL queries . An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP POST requests that contain malicious SQL statements to an affected application . A successful exploit could allow the attacker to modify and delete arbitrary data in the PLM database or gain shell access with the privileges of the postgres [ SQL ] user. ” The vulnerability impactsVulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerabilityCisco Prime License Manager Releases 11.0.1 and later .