ESA-2016-133: EMC Data Protection Advisor Path Traversal Vulnerability

ESA-2016-133: EMC Data Protection Advisor Path Traversal Vulnerability

EMC Identifier: ESA-2016-133

CVE Identifier: CVE-2016-8211

Severity Rating: CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)  
 
Affected products:
EMC Data Protection Advisor 6.1.x
EMC Data Protection Advisor 6.2
EMC Data Protection Advisor 6.2.1
EMC Data Protection Advisor 6.2.2
EMC Data Protection Advisor 6.2.3 prior to patch 446

Summary: 
EMC Data Protection Advisor contains a fix for a path traversal vulnerability that may potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

Details: 
EMC Data Protection Advisor is affected by a path traversal vulnerability. Attackers may potentially exploit this vulnerability to access unauthorized information by supplying specially crafted strings in input parameters of the application.

Resolution: 
The following EMC Data Protection Advisor release contains resolution to this vulnerability:

EMC Data Protection Advisor 6.2.3 patch 446


EMC recommends all customers upgrade at the earliest opportunity.


Link to remedies:
Registered EMC Online Support customers can download the required patch from support.emc.com at https://support.emc.com/downloads/829_Data-Protection-Advisor

If you have any questions, contact DELL/EMC Support.

Credits:
EMC would like to thank rgod working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this vulnerability.


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