CVE-2021-21363

MEDIUM LAB

Smartbear Swagger-codegen < 2.4.19 - Privilege Escalation

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Description

swagger-codegen is an open-source project which contains a template-driven engine to generate documentation, API clients and server stubs in different languages by parsing your OpenAPI / Swagger definition. In swagger-codegen before version 2.4.19, on Unix like systems, the system's temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. A collocated user can observe the process of creating a temporary sub directory in the shared temporary directory and race to complete the creation of the temporary subdirectory. This vulnerability is local privilege escalation because the contents of the `outputFolder` can be appended to by an attacker. As such, code written to this directory, when executed can be attacker controlled. For more details refer to the referenced GitHub Security Advisory. This vulnerability is fixed in version 2.4.19. Note this is a distinct vulnerability from CVE-2021-21364.

Exploits (2)

nomisec WORKING POC
by dawetmaster · poc
https://github.com/dawetmaster/CVE-2021-21363-swagger-codegen-vulnerable
nomisec WORKING POC
by andikahilmy · poc
https://github.com/andikahilmy/CVE-2021-21363-swagger-codegen-vulnerable

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 13.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Lab Environment

COMMUNITY
Community Lab
docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:3.0
docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/aspnet:3.0
docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:2.2
docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/aspnet:2.2
docker pull frolvlad/alpine-oraclejdk8:slim

Details

CWE
CWE-378 CWE-379
Status published
Products (2)
io.swagger/swagger-codegen 0 - 2.4.19Maven
smartbear/swagger-codegen < 2.4.19
Published Mar 11, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026