Dell EMC Enterprise Storage Analytics for vRealize Operations, versions 4.0.1 to 6.2.1, contain a Plain-text password storage vulnerability.

published 2022-03-04 4y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-30505

cvss: 6.0; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 1

Dell Dell EMC Enterprise Storage Analytics for vRealize Operations 6.2.1

dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000196329/dsa-2021 advisory

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Exploit prediction

0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD	3.1	6.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	3.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected products

Dell Dell EMC Enterprise Storage Analytics for vRealize Operations

Classification

Weakness

CWE-256 Plaintext Storage of a Password
CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

References

dell.com /support/kbdoc/en-us/000196329/dsa-2021
patch, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-43590
NVD CVE-2021-43590

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