Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-50333

Medium

Published: 05 November 2024

Published
05 November 2024
Modified
13 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0011 28.4th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-50333 is a medium-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Salesagility Suitecrm. Its CVSS base score is 6.6 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 28.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

SuiteCRM is an open-source, enterprise-ready Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software application. User input is not validated and is written to the filesystem. The ParserLabel::addLabels() function can be used to write attacker-controlled data into the custom language file that will be…

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included at the runtime. This issue has been addressed in versions 7.14.6 and 8.7.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1505.003 Web Shell Persistence
Adversaries may backdoor web servers with web shells to establish persistent access to systems.
Why these techniques?

The vulnerability enables remote code execution in the public-facing SuiteCRM web application via unauthenticated input written to an included language file, facilitating exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and web shell deployment (T1505.003).

Affected Assets

salesagility
suitecrm
≤ 7.14.6 · 8.0.0 — 8.7.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.

addresses: CWE-20

Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.

addresses: CWE-20

Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.

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