SugarCRM (portal_get_related_notes) SQL Injection Vulnerability

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• Affected Versions:

All versions prior to 7.9.4.0 and 7.11.0.0.

• Vulnerability Description:

The vulnerability is located within the SOAP API, specifically into the portal_get_related_notes() SOAP function. User input passed through the “order_by” parameter isn’t properly sanitized before being used to construct an “ORDER BY” clause of a SQL query from within the get_notes_in_contacts() or get_notes_in_module() functions. This can be exploited by Portal API Users to e.g. read sensitive data from the database through time-based SQL injection attacks.

• Solution:

Update to versions 7.9.4.0, 7.11.0.0, or later.

• Disclosure Timeline:

[13/10/2017] – Vendor notified

[28/03/2018] – Fixed versions released and security advisory published

[31/12/2018] – Publication of this advisory

• CVE Reference:

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has not assigned a CVE identifier for this vulnerability.

• Credits:

Vulnerability discovered by Egidio Romano.

• Other References:

https://support.sugarcrm.com/Resources/Security/sugarcrm-sa-2018-003/