ESA-2017-001: EMC Isilon InsightIQ Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

ESA-2017-001: EMC Isilon InsightIQ Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

EMC Identifier: ESA-2017-001

CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-2765 

Severity Rating: CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected products:   
• EMC Isilon InsightIQ 4.1.0
• EMC Isilon InsightIQ 4.0.1
• EMC Isilon InsightIQ 4.0.0
• EMC Isilon InsightIQ 3.2.2
• EMC Isilon InsightIQ 3.2.1
• EMC Isilon InsightIQ 3.2.0
• EMC Isilon InsightIQ 3.1.1
• EMC Isilon InsightIQ 3.1.0 
• EMC Isilon InsightIQ 3.0.1
• EMC Isilon InsightIQ 3.0.0

Summary:  
EMC Isilon InsightIQ is affected by authentication bypass vulnerability that could potentially be exploited by attackers to compromise the affected system.

Details:  
An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to bypass authentication and thereby gain administrator privileges.

Resolution:  
The following version of EMC Isilon InsightIQ resolves this vulnerability:
• EMC Isilon InsightIQ 4.1.1
EMC recommends that all customers upgrade to the version mentioned above at the earliest opportunity.  
Link to remedies:
Registered EMC Online Support customers can download InsightIQ installation files from the Downloads for Isilon InsightIQ page of the EMC Online Support site at https://support.emc.com/downloads/15208_Isilon-InsightIQ. 
Credits: 
EMC would like to thank Eric Warnke, State University of New York at Albany, for reporting this issue.


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