CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-26557
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-10-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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-426
Description
When Octopus Tentacle is installed using a custom folder location, folder ACLs are not set correctly and could lead to an unprivileged user using DLL side-loading to gain privileged access.
Affected configurations
• octopus tentacle (>= 3.15.4 < 6.0.489)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness
References
- https://advisories.octopus.com/adv/2021-02---Local-privilege-escalation-in-Octopus-Tentacle-%28CVE-2021-26557%29.1732870264.html advisories.octopus.com
- https://advisories.octopus.com/adv/2021-02---Local-privilege-escalation-in-Octopus-Tentacle-%28CVE-2021-26557%29.1732870264.html advisories.octopus.com