CVE-2017-4976

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-07-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-798

Description

EMC ESRS Policy Manager prior to 6.8 contains an undocumented account (OpenDS admin) with a default password. A remote attacker with the knowledge of the default password may login to the system and gain administrator privileges to the local LDAP directory server.

Affected products

EMC ESRS Policy Manager prior to 6.8: through 6.7

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/13
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038840
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/13
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038840

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