CVE-2021-21363

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
swagger-apiswagger-codegen< 2.4.19affected

Weaknesses

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

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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