CVE-2021-28818 TIBCO Rendezvous Windows Platform Artifact Search vulnerability
Local attackers can insert malicious software via unsafe artifact search paths, leading to code execution with elevated privileges in TIBCO Rendezvous components.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-28818?
CVE-2021-28818 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in TIBCO Rendezvous, published on 23 Mar 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Rendezvous Routing Daemon (rvrd), Rendezvous Secure Routing Daemon (rvrsd), Rendezvous Secure Daemon (rvsd), Rendezvous Cache (rvcache), Rendezvous Secure C API, Rendezvous Java API, and Rendezvous .Net API components of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Rendezvous and TIBCO Rendezvous Developer Edition contain a vulnerability that theoretically allows a low privileged attacker with local access on the Windows operating system to insert malicious software. The affected component can be abused to execute the malicious software inserted by the attacker with the elevated privileges of the component. This vulnerability results from the affected component searching for run-time artifacts outside of the installation hierarchy. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Rendezvous: versions 8.5.1 and below and TIBCO Rendezvous Developer Edition: versions 8.5.1 and below.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-28818?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Tibco Rendezvous.
How do I fix CVE-2021-28818?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-28818 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2021-28818 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-28818 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in TIBCO Rendezvous
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cqv6-cx7q-c7w5.