Untrusted Search Path
CVE-2021-28249
Summary
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
- LOW
- LOCAL
- HIGH
- CHANGED
- NONE
- LOW
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path
The application searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the application's direct control.
References
Advisory Timeline
- Published