CVE-2018-11048: Dell Emc Data Protection Advisor

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor, versions 6.2, 6,3, 6.4, 6.5 and Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) versions 2.0, 2.1 contain a XML External Entity (XXE) Injection vulnerability in the REST API. An authenticated remote malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability to read certain system files in the server or cause denial of service by supplying specially crafted Document Type Definitions (DTDs) in an XML request.

Affected products

• Dell Emc Data Protection Advisor: version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only; version 6.4 only; version 6.5 only
• Dell Emc Integrated Data Protection Appliance: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only

Published 2018-08-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.