CVE-2021-29108

high

Description

There is an privilege escalation vulnerability in organization-specific logins in Esri Portal for ArcGIS versions 10.9 and below that may allow a remote, authenticated attacker who is able to intercept and modify a SAML assertion to impersonate another account (XML Signature Wrapping Attack). In addition patching, Esri also strongly recommends as best practice for SAML assertions to be signed and encrypted.

References

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-enterprise/administration/Portal-for-ArcGIS-Security-2021-Update-1-Patch/

https://downloads.esri.com/RESOURCES/ENTERPRISEGIS/Organization-Specific_Logins_FAQs.pdf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-10-01

Updated: 2023-09-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00203