CVE-2021-29100 (GCVE-0-2021-29100)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-05 15:16 – Updated: 2025-04-10 15:21
VLAI?
Title
ArcGIS Earth has a File Parsing Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Summary
A path traversal vulnerability exists in Esri ArcGIS Earth versions 1.11.0 and below which allows arbitrary file creation on an affected system through crafted input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain arbitrary code execution under security context of the user running ArcGIS Earth by inducing the user to upload a crafted file to an affected system.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| Esri | ArcGIS Earth |
Affected:
1.11 , < 1.11.2903
(custom)
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Date Public ?
2021-04-05 00:00
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