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Privilege Escalation in SuiteCRM via Session Persistence After Account Deactivation

IdentifiersCVE-2025-64489CWE-269· Improper Privilege Management

CVE-2025-64489 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in SuiteCRM caused by improper session handling after administrative account deactivation. In affected versions, SuiteCRM does not invalidate an already-established user session when that user account is marked inactive. As a result, a deactivated user who still holds a valid session can continue to access the application despite the account status change. Critically, the user can also self-reactivate their own account from that still-valid session, defeating the intended administrative control. The issue affects SuiteCRM 7.14.7 and earlier, and 8.0.0-beta.1 through 8.9.0. It was fixed in versions 7.14.8 and 8.9.1.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation allows a deactivated user to retain unauthorized access to SuiteCRM and restore their own account status, resulting in privilege abuse and persistence beyond intended account revocation. This undermines administrative deprovisioning controls and can expose sensitive CRM data, permit continued use of application functionality, and allow an attacker or former user to maintain access after an administrator has attempted to disable the account. Reported CVSS 3.1 metrics indicate high confidentiality and integrity impact, with limited availability impact.

Mitigation

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If immediate patching is not possible, implement operational controls to forcibly terminate all active sessions when a user is deactivated, and verify that deactivated accounts cannot perform authenticated actions through pre-existing sessions. As a compensating control, administrators should manually revoke session tokens or server-side sessions for users being disabled and monitor for continued activity from accounts marked inactive. Restrict access to the application where possible until the fix is applied.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade SuiteCRM to a fixed release: version 7.14.8 or later on the 7.x branch, or version 8.9.1 or later on the 8.x branch. The vendor references fixes in SuiteCRM commit 40da2845a170832a4e9e9fa0ebe731f8c34de42d and SuiteCRM-Core commit 30277cfe69755f7360a23d4805e06a5c38f14131. Validate after upgrade that account deactivation immediately invalidates all active sessions for the affected user.
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ACTIVITY FEED

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EXTERNAL REFERENCES
MITRE CVE
cve.org · CVE-2025-64489
NVD
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64489
MITRE CWE · CWE-269
Improper Privilege Management
Patch
github.com/SuiteCRM/SuiteCRM-Core/commit/30277cfe69755f7360a23d4805e06a5c38f14131
Patch
github.com/SuiteCRM/SuiteCRM/commit/40da2845a170832a4e9e9fa0ebe731f8c34de42d
Vendor Advisory
github.com/SuiteCRM/SuiteCRM/security/advisories/GHSA-j6jg-9jj3-q2ph