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

2021-12-1520:00:16

CWE-269

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

cve-2021-43835

sulu admin panel

php content management system

symfony framework

api

profilecontroller

patch.

CVSS3

7.2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

42.8%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "sulu",
    "vendor": "sulu",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 2.0.0, < 2.2.18"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 2.3.0, < 2.3.8"
      }
    ]
  }
]