CVE-2021-28821

HIGH

TIBCO Enterprise Message Service < 8.5.1 - Privilege Escalation via Unrestricted File Access

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Windows Installation component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service - Community Edition, and TIBCO Enterprise Message Service - Developer Edition contains a vulnerability that theoretically allows a low privileged attacker with local access on some versions of the Windows operating system to insert malicious software. The affected component can be abused to execute the malicious software inserted by the attacker with the elevated privileges of the component. This vulnerability results from a lack of access restrictions on certain files and/or folders in the installation. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Enterprise Message Service: versions 8.5.1 and below, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service - Community Edition: versions 8.5.1 and below, and TIBCO Enterprise Message Service - Developer Edition: versions 8.5.1 and below.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 13.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-863
Status published
Products (1)
tibco/enterprise_message_service < 8.5.1 (3 CPE variants)
Published Mar 23, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026