CVE-2024-27915 Sulu grants access to pages regardless of role permissions

What is CVE-2024-27915?

CVE-2024-27915 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in sulu, published on 6 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Sulu is a PHP content management system. Starting in verson 2.2.0 and prior to version 2.4.17 and 2.5.13, access to pages is granted regardless of role permissions for webspaces which have a security system configured and permission check enabled. Webspaces without do not have this issue. The problem is patched in versions 2.4.17 and 2.5.13. Some workarounds are available. One may apply the patch to `vendor/symfony/security-http/HttpUtils.php` manually or avoid installing `symfony/security-http` versions greater equal than `v5.4.30` or `v6.3.6`.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-27915?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including sulu/sulu. It affects 1 product.

Products include Sulu Sulu.

How do I fix CVE-2024-27915?

Upgrade sulu/sulu to a fixed version for your release line: 2.4.17 or 2.5.13.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-27915 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-27915 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in sulu

• CVE-2021-43836 PHP file inclusion in the Sulu admin panel High 8.5
• CVE-2021-32737 XSS Injection in Media Collection Title was possible High 8.4
• CVE-2021-43835 Privilege escalation in the Sulu Admin panel High 7.2
• CVE-2021-41169 Improper Neutralization HTML tags in sulu/sulu Medium 6.2
• CVE-2024-47617 Reflected XSS Vulnerability in Sulu Media Bundle Medium 6.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-jr83-m233-gg6p.