ca ehealth CVE-2021-28246 in CA Technologies and Broadcom Products
Published on March 26, 2021

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CA eHealth Performance Manager through 6.3.2.12 is affected by Privilege Escalation via a Dynamically Linked Shared Object Library. A regular user must create a malicious library in the writable RPATH, to be dynamically linked when the emtgtctl2 executable is run. The code in the library will be executed as the ehealth user. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2021-28246 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. Public availability of a proof of concept (POC) exploit exists for CVE-2021-28246. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is an Untrusted Path Vulnerability?

The application searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the application's direct control.

CVE-2021-28246 has been classified to as an Untrusted Path vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2021-28246

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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.10%
Percentile
27.95%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.