Vulnerability · Published Mar 1, 2021 · Assigned by dell

CVE-2021-21517

High 7.2

In plain English

A high-severity XML external entity in SRS Policy Manager from Dell. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.5% (higher than 74% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.2High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 26.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Dell	SRS Policy Manager	unspecified – before 7.0

Weakness: CWE-611 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L

References

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000183576/dsa-2021-045-dell-emc-srs-policy-manager-security-update-for-external-entity-injection-vulnerability x_refsource_MISC