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Sugar Community Edition RSS Module Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory: SA30002  
Release Date: 2008-04-29
Last Update: 2008-05-08

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Sugar Community Edition 5.x
Sugar Open Source 4.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-2045 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Roberto Suggi Liverani has reported a vulnerability in Sugar Community Edition, which can be exploited by malicious users to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed to the RSS module is not properly verified before being used to generate a cache file in the "cache/feeds" directory. This can be exploited to disclose the content of an arbitrary file on an affected system by passing a local path as a URL to the RSS module.

The vulnerability is reported in version 4.5.1 and 5.0.0.

Solution:
Update to the latest version or apply the patch.

Sugar Open Source 4.x:
Apply patch 4.5.1j.
http://www.sugarforge.org/frs/download.php/3947/SugarOS-Patch-4.5.1j.zip

Sugar Community Edition 5.x:
Update to version 5.0.0 Patch C or later.
http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32252

Provided and/or discovered by:
Roberto Suggi Liverani, Security-Assessment.com

Changelog:
2008-05-08: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.security-assessment.com/fi...29_SugarCRM_local_file_disclosure.pdf



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

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1. SugarCRM Sugar Open Source Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
2. Sugar Suite Cross-Site Scripting and File Upload Vulnerabilities
3. Sugar Suite "sugarEntry" Parameter Security Bypass


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