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SugarCRM < 7.9.4.0 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

🗓️ 02 Jan 2019 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AGType 
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SugarCRM LDAP privilege escalation vulnerability fix availabl

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:sugarcrm:sugarcrm";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.141816");
  script_version("2025-07-29T05:44:59+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-07-29 05:44:59 +0000 (Tue, 29 Jul 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-01-02 14:46:41 +0700 (Wed, 02 Jan 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("SugarCRM < 7.9.4.0 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_sugarcrm_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("sugarcrm/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"SugarCRM is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"When LDAP authentication is enabled, the username input is not
  properly escaped when constructing the LDAP bind filter. Depending on your LDAP configuration and
  setup this may result in privilege escalation. This fix addresses the usage of proper username
  escaping when creating the LDAP bind and LDAP filters.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"SugarCRM versions 7.9.x.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 7.9.4.0 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://support.sugarcrm.com/Resources/Security/sugarcrm-sa-2018-002/");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
  exit(0);

if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, port: port))
  exit(0);

if (version =~ "^7\.9\.") {
  if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "7.9.4.0")) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "7.9.4.0");
    security_message(port: port, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
}

exit(99);

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