CVE-2021-28099

medium

Description

In Netflix OSS Hollow, since the Files.exists(parent) is run before creating the directories, an attacker can pre-create these directories with wide permissions. Additionally, since an insecure source of randomness is used, the file names to be created can be deterministically calculated.

References

https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/nflx-2021-001.md

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-03-23

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00035