CA eHealth Performance Manager up to 6.3.2.12 Shared Object RPATH untrusted search path

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in CA eHealth Performance Manager up to 6.3.2.12. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Shared Object Handler. Executing a manipulation of the argument RPATH can lead to an unknown weakness. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-28246. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability has been found in CA eHealth Performance Manager up to 6.3.2.12 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component Shared Object Handler. The manipulation of the argument RPATH with an unknown input leads to a unknown weakness. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-426. The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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

The weakness was disclosed 03/26/2021. The advisory is shared for download at n4nj0.github.io. This vulnerability was named CVE-2021-28246. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 08/04/2024). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1574.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• CA

Name

• eHealth Performance Manager

Version

• 6.3.2.0
• 6.3.2.1
• 6.3.2.2
• 6.3.2.3
• 6.3.2.4
• 6.3.2.5
• 6.3.2.6
• 6.3.2.7
• 6.3.2.8
• 6.3.2.9
• 6.3.2.10
• 6.3.2.11
• 6.3.2.12

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ca.com/

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