#VU15680 Security restrictions bypass in EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance - CVE-2018-11062
Published: October 31, 2018 / Updated: November 1, 2018
EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance
Dell
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to unspecified flaw. A remote unauthenticated attacker with knowledge of the default credentials can gain unauthorized access to the system and perform unauthorized actions that may lead to further attacks.
Remediation
the Integrated Data Protection Appliance:
- Log in to Data Protection Advisor - Datastore Server Virtual Machine using an SSH client such as PuTTY, as root user
and execute the following commands:
- Delete the user "support"
userdel support
- Delete the user "admin"
userdel admin
- Verify that the accounts are deleted. The following commands should display "no such user" as the output.
id support
id admin