CVE-2018-1242: Emc RecoverPoint

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dell EMC RecoverPoint versions prior to 5.1.2 and RecoverPoint for VMs versions prior to 5.1.1.3, contains a command injection vulnerability in the Boxmgmt CLI. An authenticated malicious user with boxmgmt privileges may potentially exploit this vulnerability to read RPA files. Note that files that require root permission cannot be read.

Affected products

• Emc RecoverPoint: before 5.1.2 (fixed in 5.1.2)
• Emc RecoverPoint For Virtual Machines: before 5.1.1.3 (fixed in 5.1.1.3)

Published 2018-05-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.