CVE-2021-21517 (GCVE-0-2021-21517)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-01 20:25 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:25
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Summary
SRS Policy Manager 6.X is affected by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability due to a misconfigured XML parser that processes user-supplied DTD input without sufficient validation. A remote unauthenticated attacker can potentially exploit this vulnerability to read system files as a non-root user and may be able to temporarily disrupt the ESRS service.
Severity
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Dell SRS Policy Manager Affected: unspecified , < 7.0 (custom)
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Date Public
2021-02-25 00:00
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