CVE-2021-29221: A local privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in Erlang/OTP prior to version 23.2.3. By adding files to an existing installation's directory, a…

PriorityP432high7CVSS 3.1

AVLACHPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.58%

43.5th percentile

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in Erlang/OTP prior to version 23.2.3. By adding files to an existing installation's directory, a local attacker could hijack accounts of other users running Erlang programs or possibly coerce a service running with "erlsrv.exe" to execute arbitrary code as Local System. This can occur only under specific conditions on Windows with unsafe filesystem permissions.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	erlang	—	—
erlang	erlang_otp	< 23.2.3	23.2.3
erlang_project	erlang_otp	< 23.2.3	23.2.3

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.0HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.2MEDIUMAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

vendor_debian7.0LOW

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