CVE-2021-28250 Privilege escalation in n/a

High 7.8 Published Updated

Local attackers can escalate privileges to the ehealth user by exploiting a setuid executable in the unsupported CA eHealth Performance Manager.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2021-28250?

CVE-2021-28250 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 26 Mar 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

CA eHealth Performance Manager through 6.3.2.12 is affected by Privilege Escalation via a setuid (and/or setgid) file. When a component is run as an argument of the runpicEhealth executable, the script code will be executed as the ehealth user. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-28250?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ca Ehealth Performance Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2021-28250?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-28250 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2021-28250 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-28250 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-jh68-p5rf-gmh3.

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