CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-21363

7.0 HIGH Published 2021-03-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-03-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-378, CWE-379

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.

Affected configurations

• smartbear swagger-codegen (< 2.4.19)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-378 Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions weakness
  • CWE-379 Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions weakness

References