CVE-2012-0406

high
Published 2012-04-20 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

The DPA_Utilities.cProcessAuthenticationData function in EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) 5.5 through 5.8 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an AUTHENTICATECONNECTION command that (1) lacks a password field or (2) has an empty password.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
emcdata_protection_advisor5.5
emcdata_protection_advisor5.6
emcdata_protection_advisor5.7
emcdata_protection_advisor5.8

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.