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CVE-2018-15766 json

Dell Encryption and Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise Security Policy Overwrite Vulnerability

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-7629

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

On install, Dell Encryption versions prior 10.0.1 and Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise versions prior 2.0.1 will overwrite and manually set the "Minimum Password Length" group policy object to a value of 1 on that device. This allows for users to bypass any existing policy for password length and potentially create insecure password on their device. This value is defined during the installation of the "Encryption Management Agent" or "EMAgent" application. There are no other known values modified.

Patch / fix

  • Dell Encryption 10.0.1
  • Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise 2.0.1

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Exploit prediction

0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Dell Encryption
  • Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-521 Weak Password Requirements

References

Sources

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