CVE-2025-54785
Published: 07 August 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-54785 is a high-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Salesagility Suitecrm. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 46.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-54785 is a high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8) in SuiteCRM, an open-source enterprise Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application. It stems from a lack of validation or sanitization of user-supplied input before it is passed to PHP's unserialize function in versions 7.14.6 and 8.8.0. This flaw, associated with CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation), enables PHP object injection that could result in remote code execution, privilege escalation, sensitive data exposure, denial of service, cryptomining, or ransomware deployment.
The vulnerability can be exploited by low-privileged authenticated users (PR:L) over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction required (UI:N), without changing the scope (S:U). Successful exploitation grants high impacts on confidentiality (C:H), integrity (I:H), and availability (A:H), potentially allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code, escalate privileges, exfiltrate CRM data, disrupt services, or deploy persistent threats like cryptominers or ransomware.
SuiteCRM has addressed the issue in patched versions 7.14.7 and 8.8.1, as detailed in the official release notes and GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-53cp-mpfw-qj67. Security practitioners should prioritize upgrading affected installations and review access controls for authenticated users to mitigate exposure until patching is complete.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-23892
Vulnerability details
SuiteCRM is an open-source, enterprise-ready Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software application. In versions 7.14.6 and 8.8.0, user-supplied input is not validated/sanitized before it is passed to the unserialize function, which could lead to penetration, privilege escalation, sensitive data exposure, Denial…
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of Service, cryptomining and ransomware. This issue is fixed in version 7.14.7 and 8.8.1.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
PHP Object Injection via unsanitized unserialize enables RCE on public-facing CRM app (T1190), facilitating privilege escalation (T1068), CRM data collection/exposure (T1213.004), ransomware deployment (T1486), cryptomining (T1496.001), and DoS via exploitation (T1499.004).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation and sanitization of user-supplied input before processing, preventing PHP object injection via unserialize.
Mandates timely identification, reporting, and patching of software flaws like this unserialize vulnerability fixed in SuiteCRM 7.14.7 and 8.8.1.
Enables vulnerability scanning and monitoring to detect and prioritize remediation of high-severity issues like CVE-2025-54785 in affected SuiteCRM versions.