SugarCRM is one of the most popular customer relationship management solutions. It is available as a commercial edition and as an open-source community edition and is used by more than 2 million individuals in over 120 countries to manage sensitive customer data ¹. Lately its security attracted attention after a researcher reported multiple security issues in the code ². As a result, a new version of SugarCRM was released.

We wanted to check what our automated code analysis technology RIPS would find after the recent manual audit and how it could contribute to the security. As a result, critical issues were uncovered that could allow attackers to steal customer data or sensitive files from the server.