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Fencer Vulns
high 7.2

CVE-2021-43835 json

Privilege escalation in the Sulu Admin panel

published 2021-12-15 4 y ago modified 2026-07-08 4 mo ago also GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9 , EUVD-2021-2479

cvss
7.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • packagist sulu/sulu 2.2.18, 2.3.8, 2.4.0
  • sulu sulu 2.2.18, 2.3.8

Exploit prediction

1.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist sulu/sulu
>=2.0.0, <2.2.18
>=2.3.0, <2.3.8
>=2.4.0-RC1, <2.4.0
2.2.18
2.3.8
2.4.0

Affected products

  • sulu sulu

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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