CVE-2018-15766
Dell Encryption and Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise Security Policy Overwrite Vulnerability
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- dell
Description
On install, Dell Encryption versions prior 10.0.1 and Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise versions prior 2.0.1 will overwrite and manually set the "Minimum Password Length" group policy object to a value of 1 on that device. This allows for users to bypass any existing policy for password length and potentially create insecure password on their device. This value is defined during the installation of the "Encryption Management Agent" or "EMAgent" application. There are no other known values modified.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.55% · top 54% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- Password Policy Vulnerability
- CWE-521 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-521 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 10.0.1
Dell · Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise
- affected unspecified – < 2.0.1
What to do
Workaround: For affected devices, the minimum password length policy should be changed manually to what is desired for the current environment. If Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise or Dell Encryption Enterprise’s Encryption Management Agent is installed on a Domain Controller or a device that is not joined to a domain, the default minimum password length will need to be changed on the local device. If Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise or Dell Encryption Enterprise’s Encryption Management Agent is installed on a device that is joined to a domain, the default minimum password length will need to be changed within the enterprise’s Group Policy Management console. Default values for this property is ‘7’ in most configurations. This Microsoft KB article outlines how to modify this setting: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd277399.aspx External Link
References (1)
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)
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