CVE-2021-28828TIBCO Administrator SQL injection vulnerability
- 7.6HighCVSS base score
- 0.87%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 41% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Administration GUI component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition, TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition, TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric, TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric, TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition for z/Linux, and TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition for z/Linux contains an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows a low privileged attacker with network access to execute a SQL injection attack on the affected system. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition: versions 5.10.2 and below, TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition: versions 5.11.0 and 5.11.1, TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric: versions 5.10.2 and below, TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric: versions 5.11.0 and 5.11.1, TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition for z/Linux: versions 5.10.2 and below, and TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition for z/Linux: versions 5.11.0 and 5.11.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By tibco
- 33 days later
· 33 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| tibcoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.87% · top 41% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Affected products
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition
- affected unspecified – ≤ 5.10.2
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition
- affected 5.11.0
- affected 5.11.1
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric
- affected unspecified – ≤ 5.10.2
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric
- affected 5.11.0
- affected 5.11.1
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition for z/Linux
- affected unspecified – ≤ 5.10.2
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition for z/Linux
- affected 5.11.0
- affected 5.11.1
What to do
Solution: TIBCO has released updated versions of the affected components which address these issues. TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition versions 5.10.2 and below update to version 5.10.3 or higher TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition versions 5.11.0 and 5.11.1 update to version 5.11.2 or higher TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric versions 5.10.2 and below update to version 5.10.3 or higher TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric versions 5.11.0 and 5.11.1 update to version 5.11.2 or higher TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition for z/Linux versions 5.10.2 and below update to version 5.10.3 or higher TIBCO Administrator - Enterprise Edition for z/Linux versions 5.11.0 and 5.11.1 update to version 5.11.2 or higher
References
References2
- http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2021/04/tibco-security-advisory-april-20-2021-tibco-administrator-2021-28828 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-15484 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2021-28828)Record last updated .