Security information

Alerts

Last update: 2009-08-21

No security bugs known at the moment.

Features

Dolibarr implements several security features. Among them :

Encryption

• User passwords can be encrypted in database.
• Database technical password can be encoded in the Dolibarr configuration file (conf.php).
• Possibility to force HTTPS.

Hacks and cracks

• Works with register_globals on or off (off highly recommended).
• Works with PHP safe_mode on or off (on recommended).
• Protection against SQL injection.
• Protection against XSS injection (Cross Site Scripting).
• Protection against CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery).

Pages and files access

• Pages and contents are protected by permissions (granted on groups or users) for each functional module.
• Files saved by Dolibarr are stored in a different root directory than web application (so they can not be downloaded without passing by the Dolibarr wrapper).
• Dolibarr directories content can't be accessed even if Apache option Indexes has be forgotten to on (should not).

Login protection

• Delay anti brute force cracking on login page.
• Graphical code (CAPTCHA) against robots on login page.
• No passwords in logs, even in technical logs.
• Internal logger to save permanently all Dolibarr events about user's administration and successful or failed logins.

Viruses

• Possibility to run an anti-virus on every uploaded file.