Vulnerability · Published Mar 26, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-28249

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 36% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://n4nj0.github.io/advisories/ca-ehealth-performance-manager/ x_refsource_MISC