National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1742
Original release date:08/01/2011
Last revised:09/22/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
EMC Data Protection Advisor before 5.8.1 places cleartext account credentials in the DPA configuration file in unspecified circumstances, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading this file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20110726 ESA-2011-021: EMC Data Protection Advisor sensitive information disclosure vulnerability
External Source: SREASON
Name: 8318
