CVE-2021-28246

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-03-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-426

Description

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

Affected products

Broadcom Ehealth: through 6.3.2.12

References

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

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