CVE-2021-43051 TIBCO Spotfire Server API Authorization Vulnerability
Malicious API clients can execute unauthorized internal operations, potentially escalating privileges or modifying data, requiring user interaction.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-43051?
CVE-2021-43051 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in TIBCO Spotfire Server, published on 14 Dec 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Spotfire Server component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Spotfire Server, TIBCO Spotfire Server, and TIBCO Spotfire Server contains a difficult to exploit vulnerability that allows malicious custom API clients with network access to execute internal API operations outside of the scope of those granted to it. A successful attack using this vulnerability requires human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Spotfire Server: versions 10.10.6 and below, TIBCO Spotfire Server: versions 11.0.0, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, and 11.4.1, and TIBCO Spotfire Server: versions 11.5.0 and 11.6.0.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-43051?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Tibco Spotfire Server.
How do I fix CVE-2021-43051?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-43051 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-2021-43051 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-43051 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in TIBCO Spotfire Server
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j7vq-gw7g-j543.