cve-2021-29108
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-10-01 14:41
Modified
2025-04-10 14:59
Summary
There is an privilege escalation vulnerability in organization-specific logins in Esri Portal for ArcGIS versions 10.9 and below.
Impacted products
EsriPortal for ArcGIS
Show details on NVD website


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