{"id":"CVE-2020-5351","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-5351","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:28:45.475Z","title":"Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor versions 6.4, 6.5 and 18.1 contain an undocumented account with limited privileges that is protected with a hard-coded password.","description":"Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor versions 6.4, 6.5 and 18.1 contain an undocumented account with limited privileges that is protected with a hard-coded password. A remote unauthenticated malicious user with the knowledge of the hard-coded password may login to the system and gain read-only privileges.","published":"2021-07-28T00:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:21:20.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security_alert@emc.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-259"],"affected":["dell/emc data protection advisor"],"epss":{"score":0.01064,"percentile":0.64445,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.06%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.dell.com/support/security/en-us/details/542649/DSA-2020-080-Dell-EMC-Data-Protection-Advisor-Hard-Coded-Credential-Vulnerability","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security_alert@emc.com"},{"url":"https://www.dell.com/support/security/en-us/details/542649/DSA-2020-080-Dell-EMC-Data-Protection-Advisor-Hard-Coded-Credential-Vulnerability","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5351","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}