CVE-2021-28938 Race condition in n/a

Medium 4.3 Published Updated

A race condition in Siren Federate allows low-privilege users to execute queries with high-privilege user permissions, leading to privilege escalation and information disclosure.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2021-28938?

CVE-2021-28938 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 13 Apr 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Siren Federate before 6.8.14-10.3.9, 6.9.x through 7.6.x before 7.6.2-20.2, 7.7.x through 7.9.x before 7.9.3-21.6, 7.10.x before 7.10.2-22.2, and 7.11.x before 7.11.2-23.0 can leak user information across thread contexts. This occurs in opportunistic circumstances when there is concurrent query execution by a low-privilege user and a high-privilege user. The former query might run with the latter query's privileges.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-28938?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Siren Federate.

How do I fix CVE-2021-28938?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-28938 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2021-28938 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-28938 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-hqm8-fvp5-3prf.

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