ESA-2015-115: EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (VMs) Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

ESA-2015-115: EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (VMs) Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

EMC Identifier: ESA-2015-115

CVE Identifier: CVE-2015-4526

Severity Rating: CVSSv2 Base Score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Affected products:

• EMC RecoverPoint for VMs 4.2

Summary:
EMC RecoverPoint for VMs 4.3 contains fixes for a restriction bypass vulnerability that could potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

Details:

EMC RecoverPoint for VMs contains a vulnerability that could potentially allow malicious users to bypass the restricted Installation Manager (Boxmgmt CLI) interface, gain shell access, and execute commands as root.

Resolution:
The following EMC release contains resolutions to these vulnerabilities:

• EMC RecoverPoint for VMs 4.3

EMC recommends all customers upgrade at the earliest opportunity.

Link to remedies:

Registered EMC Online Support customers can download patches and software from https://support.emc.com.

If you have any questions, please contact EMC Support.

Credits:

EMC would like to thank an anonymous researcher working with Beyond Security's SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program (http://www.beyondsecurity.com/ssd.html) for reporting this issue

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