Vulnerability · Published Dec 15, 2021 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2021-43835Privilege escalation in the Sulu Admin panel

High 7.2

In plain English

A high-severity privilege mismanagement in sulu from sulu. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 68% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.2High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 32.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Sulu is an open-source PHP content management system based on the Symfony framework. In affected versions Sulu users who have access to any subset of the admin UI are able to elevate their privilege. Over the API it was possible for them to give themselves permissions to areas which they did not already had. This issue was introduced in 2.0.0-RC1 with the new ProfileController putAction. The versions have been patched in 2.2.18, 2.3.8 and 2.4.0. For users unable to upgrade the only known workaround is to apply a patch to the ProfileController manually.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Packagist	sulu/sulu	2.2.18	GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9
Packagist	sulu/sulu	2.3.8	GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9
Packagist	sulu/sulu	2.4.0	GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
sulu	sulu	>= 2.0.0, < 2.2.18>= 2.3.0, < 2.3.8

Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://github.com/sulu/sulu/security/advisories/GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/sulu/sulu/commit/30bf8b5a4f83b6f2171a696011757d095edaa28a x_refsource_MISC