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🛡️ CVE-2024-36416 — suitecrm

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-779 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

SuiteCRM v4 API Excessive log data DOS

SuiteCRM is an open-source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software application. Prior to versions 7.14.4 and 8.6.1, a deprecated v4 API example with no log rotation allows denial of service by logging excessive data. Versions 7.14.4 and 8.6.1 contain a fix for this issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-36416 is classified as CWE-779: Logging of Excessive Data. The product logs too much information, making log files hard to process and possibly hindering recovery efforts or forensic analysis after an attack.

Affected software

CVE-2024-36416 is recorded against 1 package.

  • suitecrm

Timeline and source

Published on 12 June 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
docs.suitecrm.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Other advisories for this package

suitecrm has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-779: Logging of Excessive Data) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-779
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-06-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
suitecrm — —

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