CVE-2021-28823 TIBCO eFTL Windows Platform Installation vulnerability

What is CVE-2021-28823?

CVE-2021-28823 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in TIBCO eFTL - Community Edition, 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 Windows Installation component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO eFTL - Community Edition, TIBCO eFTL - Developer Edition, and TIBCO eFTL - Enterprise Edition contains a vulnerability that theoretically allows a low privileged attacker with local access on some versions of 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 a lack of access restrictions on certain files and/or folders in the installation. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO eFTL - Community Edition: versions 6.5.0 and below, TIBCO eFTL - Developer Edition: versions 6.5.0 and below, and TIBCO eFTL - Enterprise Edition: versions 6.5.0 and below.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-28823?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Tibco Eftl.

How do I fix CVE-2021-28823?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-28823 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2021-28823 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-28823 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in TIBCO eFTL - Community Edition

• CVE-2021-43054 TIBCO eFTL Token Generation Vulnerability High 7.1
• CVE-2021-43055 TIBCO eFTL Token Caching Vulnerability Medium 5.9
• CVE-2022-30574 TIBCO eFTL Secret Jacking Medium 4.6

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-3p2f-8v7p-h452.