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ESA-2012-060: EMC Data Protection Advisor Information Disclosure Vulnerability.

EMC Identifier: ESA-2012-060

CVE Identifier: CVE-2012-4616



Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)



Affected Products:

EMC Data Protection Advisor 5.6, 5.6 SP1
EMC Data Protection Advisor 5.7, 5.7 SP1
EMC Data Protection Advisor 5.8, 5.8 SP1, 5.8 SP2, 5.8 SP3, 5.8 SP4



Summary:

A vulnerability exists in EMC Data Protection Advisor that can be potentially exploited to gain unauthorized access to files and directories.


Details:

The DPA Web UI contains directory traversal vulnerability that could allow a remote unauthenticated malicious user to copy and read files from the affected system. The vulnerability does not allow an attacker to modify existing or upload new files to the affected system. If recommended practice is followed and the DPA server processes run as an unprivileged user, these files will be limited to the DPA installation directory. The DPA installation directory may contain files with sensitive system information.

Resolution:

The following EMC Data Protection Advisor products contain a resolution to this issue:

EMC Data Protection Advisor 5.6, 5.6 SP1 (Patch DPA-21068)
EMC Data Protection Advisor 5.7, 5.7 SP1 (Patch DPA-21068)
EMC Data Protection Advisor 5.8, 5.8 SP1, 5.8 SP2, 5.8 SP3, 5.8 SP4 (Patch DPA-21068)

The DPA server processes will need to be shut down to allow the patch to be applied.

EMC strongly recommends all customers apply the relevant patches at the earliest opportunity.




Link to Remedies:

Registered EMC Powerlink customers can download software from:

Online support https://support.emc.com/downloads/829_Data-Protection-Advisor
Powerlink http://powerlink.emc.com/, navigate to Home > Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads D > Data Protection Advisor


Credits:

EMC would like to thank Andrea Micalizzi (aka rgod) working with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (http://www.zerodayinitiative.com) for reporting this issue.


Read and use the information in this EMC Security Advisory to assist in avoiding any situation that might arise from the problems described herein. If you have any questions regarding this product alert, contact EMC Software Technical Support at 1-877-534-2867.

Because the view is restricted based on customer agreements, you may not have permission to view certain downloads. Should you not see a software download you believe you should have access to, follow the instructions in EMC Knowledgebase solution emc116045.

For an explanation of Severity Ratings, refer to EMC Knowledgebase solution emc218831. EMC recommends all customers take into account both the base score and any relevant temporal and environmental scores which may impact the potential severity associated with particular security vulnerability.

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EMC Product Security Response Center

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