Security restrictions bypass in EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance - CVE-2018-11062

Vulnerability identifier: #VU15680

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11062

CWE-ID: CWE-264

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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.

EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance

Follow the steps below to remove the user accounts named "support" and "admin" from the impacted virtual machines in
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

• https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Oct/53

• Security restrictions bypass in EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance