CVE-2018-1246 Cross-site scripting in Dell EMC Unity

What is CVE-2018-1246?

CVE-2018-1246 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Dell EMC Unity, published on 28 Sep 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Dell EMC Unity and UnityVSA contains reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. A remote unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability by tricking a victim application user to supply malicious HTML or Java Script code to Unisphere, which is then reflected back to the victim and executed by the web browser.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1246?

It affects 2 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2018-1246?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-1246 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2018-1246 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1246 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Dell EMC Unity

• 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-jp6c-fxpc-3qjr.