CVE-2019-18581: Dell Emc Data Protection Advisor

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor versions 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 18.2 versions prior to patch 83, and 19.1 versions prior to patch 71 contain a server missing authorization vulnerability in the REST API. A remote authenticated malicious user with administrative privileges may potentially exploit this vulnerability to alter the application’s allowable list of OS commands. This may lead to arbitrary OS command execution as the regular user runs the DPA service on the affected system.

Affected products

• Dell Emc Data Protection Advisor: version 6.3 only; version 6.4 only; version 6.5 only; version 18.1 only; version 18.2 only; version 19.1 only
• Dell Emc Integrated Data Protection Appliance Firmware: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only

Published 2020-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.