CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-4983 — Dell Emc Data Domain Os security vulnerability
Medium
CVSS 6.7
EMC Data Domain OS 5.2 through 5.7 before 5.7.3.0 and 6.0 before 6.0.1.0 is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability that may potentially be exploited by attackers to compromise the affected system.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.7 (3.0)
- Published
- 2017-05-04
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
Affected products
- dell / emc_data_domain_os / 5.2
- dell / emc_data_domain_os / 5.4
- dell / emc_data_domain_os / 5.5
- dell / emc_data_domain_os / 5.6
- dell / emc_data_domain_os / 5.7
- dell / emc_data_domain_os / 6.0
Matched remediation archetype
Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management
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Check exposure
- Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
- Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
- Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.
Remediate safely
- Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
- Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
- Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.
Authoritative sources
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