Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor, versions 6.2, 6,3, 6.4, 6.5 and Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) versions 2.0, 2.1…

Description

Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor, versions 6.2, 6,3, 6.4, 6.5 and Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) versions 2.0, 2.1 contain a XML External Entity (XXE) Injection vulnerability in the REST API. An authenticated remote malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability to read certain system files in the server or cause denial of service by supplying specially crafted Document Type Definitions (DTDs) in an XML request.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.1% · top 19% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.

Weakness

• XML External Entity Vulnerability
• CWE-611 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-611 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Dell EMC · Data Protection Advisor

  • affected 6.2
  • affected 6.3
  • affected 6.4 – ≤ patch B180
  • affected 6.5 – ≤ patch B58

• Dell EMC · Integrated Data Protection Appliance

  • affected 2.0
  • affected 2.1

References (3)

• 105130 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 20180803 DSA-2018-112: Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor XML External Entity Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• 1041417 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2018-11048](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2018-11048.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2018-11048)

Record last updated 17 Sept 2024, 01:56 UTC.