8.8

CVE-2021-29108: There is an privilege escalation vulnerability in organization-specific logins in Esri Portal for ArcGIS versions 10.9 and below.

Modified
Published 01-10-2021Last modified 10-04-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2021-29108 is a high (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in esri portal_for_arcgis. EPSS estimates a 0.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.81%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 01-10-2021
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 10-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

There is an privilege escalation vulnerability in organization-specific logins in Esri Portal for ArcGIS versions 10.9 and below that may allow a remote, authenticated attacker who is able to intercept and modify a SAML assertion to impersonate another account (XML Signature Wrapping Attack). In addition patching, Esri also strongly recommends as best practice for SAML assertions to be signed and encrypted.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.81%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

57%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.81% on 26-09-2026

26-09-202626-10-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Esri1 product

1 vendor · 1 product

References

2 links