Vulnerability · Published Mar 4, 2022 · Assigned by dell

CVE-2021-43590

Medium 6.0

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Dell EMC Enterprise Storage Analytics for vRealize Operations from Dell. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 4% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.0Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 95.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Dell EMC Enterprise Storage Analytics for vRealize Operations, versions 4.0.1 to 6.2.1, contain a Plain-text password storage vulnerability. A local high privileged malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the disclosure of certain user credentials. The attacker may be able to use the exposed credentials to access the vulnerable application with privileges of the compromised account.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Dell	Dell EMC Enterprise Storage Analytics for vRealize Operations	unspecified – before 6.2.1

Weakness: CWE-256 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000196329/dsa-2021 x_refsource_MISC