CVE-2021-43835CWE-269

Privilege escalation in the Sulu Admin panel

High · published December 15, 2021

CVSS v3.1
7.2
EPSS
1%
Percentile
67.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01172 · 67.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2021-12-15T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 DEC 20:00Z
    Privilege escalation in the Sulu Admin panel
    cvelistv5