CVE-2021-21517

HIGH

Dell EMC SRS Policy Manager 6.X - Unauthenticated XML External Entity Injection via DTD Processing

Title source: llm

Description

SRS Policy Manager 6.X is affected by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability due to a misconfigured XML parser that processes user-supplied DTD input without sufficient validation. A remote unauthenticated attacker can potentially exploit this vulnerability to read system files as a non-root user and may be able to temporarily disrupt the ESRS service.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000183576/dsa-2021-045-dell-emc-srs-policy-manager-security-update-for-external-entity-injection-vulnerability

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2

EPSS 0.0044

EPSS Percentile 63.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE

CWE-611

Status published

Products (3)

dell/emc_srs_policy_manager 6.6

dell/emc_srs_policy_manager 6.8.3

dell/emc_srs_policy_manager 6.9.0

Published Mar 01, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026