Authentication bypass in EMC Secure Remote Services - CVE-2017-4986

 

Authentication bypass in EMC Secure Remote Services - CVE-2017-4986

Published: June 20, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7122
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-4986
CWE-ID: CWE-592
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Dell
Affected software:
EMC Secure Remote Services

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication on the target system.

The weakness exists due to unsafe authentication mechanism. A remote attacker can bypass authentication and potentially read sensitive log data containing usernames and IP addresses.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in information disclosure.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-4986

Update to version 3.20.

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