What is CVE-2021-28246?

CVE-2021-28246 is a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Ehealth, classified under Untrusted Search Path. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2021-03-26.

How severe is CVE-2021-28246?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Broadcom Ehealth

CVE-2021-28246

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

Published 2021-03-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (30.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 30.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Broadcom Ehealth

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-426 — Untrusted Search Path

References

n4nj0.github.io/advisories/ca-ehealth-performance-manager/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-28246?: CVE-2021-28246 is a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Ehealth, classified under Untrusted Search Path. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2021-03-26.
How severe is CVE-2021-28246?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.