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CVE-2018-15772
Dell EMC RecoverPoint Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability
High7.1EPSS 0.41%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- dell
Description
Dell EMC RecoverPoint versions prior to 5.1.2.1 and RecoverPoint for VMs versions prior to 5.2.0.2 contain an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability. A malicious boxmgmt user may potentially be able to consume large amount of CPU bandwidth to make the system slow or to determine the existence of any system file via Boxmgmt CLI.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Weakness
- uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability
- CWE-400 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs
Affected products
Dell EMC · Dell EMC RecoverPoint
- affected unspecified – < 5.1.2.1
Dell EMC · Dell EMC RecoverPoint Virtual Machine (VM)
- affected unspecified – < 5.2.0.2
References (3)
- 1042059 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 105916 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20181108 DSA-2018-205: Dell EMC RecoverPoint Multiple Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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