{"answers":{"affected":"6 open source packages ship an affected version, including sulu/sulu. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-43835 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade sulu/sulu to a fixed version for your release line: 2.2.18, 2.3.8 or 2.4.0.","what":"CVE-2021-43835 is a high-severity vulnerability in sulu, published on 15 Dec 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-43835 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-43835 is a high-severity vulnerability in sulu, published on 15 Dec 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-43835 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- sulu/sulu (Packagist): affected from 2.0.0; fixed in 2.2.18\n- sulu/sulu (Packagist): affected from 2.0.0; fixed in 2.2.18\n- sulu/sulu (Packagist): affected from 2.3.0; fixed in 2.3.8\n- sulu/sulu (Packagist): affected from 2.3.0; fixed in 2.3.8\n- sulu/sulu (Packagist): affected from 2.4.0-RC1; fixed in 2.4.0\n- sulu/sulu (Packagist): affected from 2.4.0-RC1; fixed in 2.4.0\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-43835/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-43835/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-43835","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-43835/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-43835","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Sulu CMS","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Authenticated users with admin UI access can escalate privileges via the API to gain unauthorized permissions in Sulu CMS.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"sulu","vendor":"sulu"}],"cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-269","name":"Improper Privilege Management"}],"description":"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.","ecosystems":["Packagist"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Privilege escalation in the Sulu Admin panel","id":"CVE-2021-43835","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Packagist","product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2021"},"n_packages":6,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"PHP file inclusion in the Sulu admin panel","id":"CVE-2021-43836"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Packagist","fixed":["2.2.18"],"introduced":["2.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"sulu/sulu","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9"},{"ecosystem":"Packagist","fixed":["2.2.18"],"introduced":["2.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"sulu/sulu","purl":"pkg:composer/sulu/sulu","source":"GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9"},{"ecosystem":"Packagist","fixed":["2.3.8"],"introduced":["2.3.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"sulu/sulu","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9"},{"ecosystem":"Packagist","fixed":["2.3.8"],"introduced":["2.3.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"sulu/sulu","purl":"pkg:composer/sulu/sulu","source":"GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9"},{"ecosystem":"Packagist","fixed":["2.4.0"],"introduced":["2.4.0-RC1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"sulu/sulu","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9"},{"ecosystem":"Packagist","fixed":["2.4.0"],"introduced":["2.4.0-RC1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"sulu/sulu","purl":"pkg:composer/sulu/sulu","source":"GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9"}],"prev":{"headline":"Incorrect Authentication in elabftw","id":"CVE-2021-43834"},"products":["sulu"],"published":"2021-12-15","related":[{"cvss_score":8.5,"headline":"PHP file inclusion in the Sulu admin panel","id":"CVE-2021-43836","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-12-15"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"XSS Injection in Media Collection Title was possible","id":"CVE-2021-32737","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-07-02"},{"cvss_score":6.8,"headline":"Sulu grants access to pages regardless of role permissions","id":"CVE-2024-27915","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-03-06"},{"cvss_score":6.2,"headline":"Improper Neutralization HTML tags in sulu/sulu","id":"CVE-2021-41169","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-10-21"},{"cvss_score":6.1,"headline":"Reflected XSS Vulnerability in Sulu Media Bundle","id":"CVE-2024-47617","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-10-03"},{"cvss_score":5.3,"headline":"Sulu checks fix permissions for subentities endpoints","id":"CVE-2026-34372","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-31"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["sulu"]},"summary":"Authenticated users with admin UI access can escalate privileges via the API to gain unauthorized permissions in Sulu CMS.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-43835/"}