SuiteCRM: Admin OS RCE via Dropdown Editor PHP Injection

Summary

SuiteCRM is an open-source, enterprise-ready Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software application. Prior to 7.15.2 and 8.10.2, the Studio Dropdown Editor passes $dropdown_name through html_entity_decode() and writes the result verbatim into a PHP language file under custom/ that is included on later page loads. An administrator can inject persistent PHP that executes as the web-server account, survives cache clears, and compromises application and host confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This issue is fixed in versions 7.15.2 and 8.10.2.

Remediation

1. Inventory every SuiteCRM SuiteCRM deployment, including staging.
2. No fixed version appears in the public sources yet. Check the references below and the vendor directly.

References

• Referencehttps://github.com/SuiteCRM/SuiteCRM/security/advisories/GHSA-4773-c8fh-3rww
• Referencehttps://github.com/SuiteCRM/SuiteCRM-Core/commit/a11f50180d939f639cc468b5d536e8ad714dfb68
• Referencehttps://github.com/SuiteCRM/SuiteCRM/commit/d6bca97a0159ec019a969b86eca32affab3beb7c
• Referencehttps://github.com/SuiteCRM/SuiteCRM-Core/releases/tag/v8.10.2
• Referencehttps://github.com/SuiteCRM/SuiteCRM/releases/tag/v7.15.2