High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 26, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-28249
CVE-2021-28249
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
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:ca:ehealth_performance_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:ca:ehealth_performance_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=6.3.2.12
- (no CPE)range: <=6.3.2.12
- CA/eHealth Performance Managerdescription
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References
1- n4nj0.github.io/advisories/ca-ehealth-performance-manager/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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