SuiteCRM: Privilege escalation via V8 REST modules (ACLRoles, ACLActions, Administration)

Summary

SuiteCRM is an open-source, enterprise-ready Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software application. Prior to 7.15.2 and 8.10.2, the V8 module API exposes CRUD operations for administrator-only modules to any authenticated OAuth2 user. The affected flow begins at /Api/V8/module and uses ACLRoles, ACLActions, and Administration to carry attacker-controlled data or authorization state into the security-sensitive operation. A low-privileged user can create roles, change ACL levels, bind elevated roles, and alter global configuration to obtain administrator-equivalent control of CRM data and behavior. 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-rxx9-4rg7-c3qp
• 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