MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2009-2146

Sugarcrm vulnerability

CVSS
6.0
EPSS
21.5%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the Compose Email feature in the Emails module in Sugar Community Edition (aka SugarCRM) before 5.2f allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with only an extension in its name, then accessing the file via a direct request to a modified filename under cache/modules/Emails/, as demonstrated using .php as the entire original name.
Affected vendor
Sugarcrm
Affected product
Sugarcrm
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2009-06-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 21.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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