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Privilege escalation in the Sulu Admin panel

Moderate
alexander-schranz published GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9 Dec 15, 2021

Package

composer sulu/sulu (Composer)

Affected versions

>=2.0.0@RC <=2.2.17 || >=2.3.0@RC <=2.3.7 || 2.4.0-RC1

Patched versions

2.2.18,2.3.8,2.4.0

Description

Impact

Impacted are only users which already have access to the admin UI. 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.

Patches

The versions have been patched in 2.2.18, 2.3.8 and 2.4.0.

Workarounds

Patching the ProfileController of affected sulu versions yourself by overwriting it.

References

Are there any links users can visit to find out more?

Currently not.

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Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

CVE-2021-43835

Weaknesses