CVE-2011-1742

low

Published 2011-08-01 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.1

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
emc	data_protection_advisor	`{"endIncluding":"5.8"}`
emc	data_protection_advisor	`5.0`
emc	data_protection_advisor	`5.6`
emc	data_protection_advisor	`5.6.1`
emc	data_protection_advisor	`5.7`
emc	data_protection_advisor	`5.7.1`
emc	data_protection_advisor	`5.8`

References

CWEs

CWE-255

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.