CVE-2018-1239 Command injection in Unity Operating Environment (OE)

What is CVE-2018-1239?

CVE-2018-1239 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Dell EMC Unity Operating Environment (OE), published on 8 May 2018. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Dell EMC Unity Operating Environment (OE) versions prior to 4.3.0.1522077968 are affected by multiple OS command injection vulnerabilities. A remote application admin user could potentially exploit the vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary OS commands as system root on the system where Dell EMC Unity is installed.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1239?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Dell Emc Unity Operating Environment, Dell Emc Unityvsa Operating Environment.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1239?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-1239 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2018-1239 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1239 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Dell EMC Unity Operating Environment (OE)

• CVE-2021-36294 Auth bypass in VNX Control Station Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-36288 Path traversal in VNX2 High 8.6
• CVE-2021-36289 Information disclosure in VNX Control Station High 7.8
• CVE-2019-3741 Information disclosure in Unity High 7.8
• CVE-2018-11064 Privilege escalation in Dell EMC Unity High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-vprp-mqwj-m22m.