CVE-2021-27184: Pelco Digital Sentry Server

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Pelco Digital Sentry Server 7.18.72.11464 has an XML External Entity vulnerability (exploitable via the DTD parameter entities technique), resulting in disclosure and retrieval of arbitrary data on the affected node via an out-of-band (OOB) attack. The vulnerability is triggered when input passed to the XML parser is not sanitized while parsing the ControlPointCacheShare.xml file (in a %APPDATA%\Pelco directory) when DSControlPoint.exe is executed.

Affected products

• Pelco Digital Sentry Server: version 7.18.72.11464 only

Published 2021-02-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.