CVE-2018-15766

Dell Encryption and Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise Security Policy Overwrite Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 11, 2018
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Aug 23, 2018

Description

On install, Dell Encryption versions prior 10.0.1 and Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise versions prior 2.0.1 will overwrite and manually set the "Minimum Password Length" group policy object to a value of 1 on that device. This allows for users to bypass any existing policy for password length and potentially create insecure password on their device. This value is defined during the installation of the "Encryption Management Agent" or "EMAgent" application. There are no other known values modified.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
EncryptionDell	before 10.0.1Affected
Endpoint Security Suite EnterpriseDell	before 2.0.1Affected

References

https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln313561/dell-encryption-and-dell-endpoint-security-suite-enterprise-security-policy-overwrite-vulnerability?lang=en

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