Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor versions 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 18.2 versions prior to patch 83, and 19.1 versions prior to patch 71 contain a server-side template injection vulnerability in the REST API. A remote authenticated malicious user with administrative privileges may potentially exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious report generation scripts in the server. This may lead to OS command execution as the regular user runs the DPA service on the affected system.

Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor versions 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 18.2 versions prior to patch 83, and 19.1 versions prior to patch 71 contain a server missing authorization vulnerability in the REST API. A remote authenticated malicious user with administrative privileges may potentially exploit this vulnerability to alter the application’s allowable list of OS commands. This may lead to arbitrary OS command execution as the regular user runs the DPA service on the affected system.

Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance versions prior to 2.3 contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. A remote malicious ACM admin user may potentially exploit this vulnerability to store malicious HTML or JavaScript code in Cloud DR add-on specific field. When victim users access the page through their browsers, the malicious code gets executed by the web browser in the context of the vulnerable web application.

Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance versions prior to 2.3 do not limit the number of authentication attempts to the ACM API. An authenticated remote user may exploit this vulnerability to launch a brute-force authentication attack in order to gain access to the system.

Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance versions prior to 2.3 contain a password storage vulnerability in the ACM component. A remote authenticated malicious user with root privileges may potentially use a support tool to decrypt encrypted passwords stored locally on the system to use it to access other components using the privileges of the compromised user.