CVE-2018-1185
Command injection vulnerability in Admin CLI may allow a malicious user with admin privileges to escape from the restricted shell to an interactive shell and run arbitrary commands with root privileges.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 6.3%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
An issue was discovered in EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines versions prior to 5.1.1, EMC RecoverPoint version 5.1.0.0, and EMC RecoverPoint versions prior to 5.0.1.3. Command injection vulnerability in Admin CLI may allow a malicious user with admin privileges to escape from the restricted shell to an interactive shell and run arbitrary commands with root privileges.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.7 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 6.31% probability · 94th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 11 May 2018
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Affected
- dell/emc recoverpoint · dell/emc recoverpoint for virtual machines
- Source
- security_alert@emc.com
EPSS 6.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Feb/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040320Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44614/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Feb/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040320Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44614/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.