CVE-2018-15766 Dell Encryption and Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise Security Policy Overwrite Vulnerability

What is CVE-2018-15766?

CVE-2018-15766 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dell Encryption, published on 11 Oct 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-521

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-15766?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Dell Encryption, Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise.

How do I fix CVE-2018-15766?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-15766 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-15766 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-15766 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Dell Encryption

• CVE-2025-36564 Privilege escalation in Encryption Admin Utilities High 7.8
• CVE-2025-46637 Path traversal in Dell Encryption High 7.3
• CVE-2025-36611 Path traversal in Encryption High 7.3
• CVE-2023-32479 Privilege escalation in Dell Encryption Medium 6.7
• CVE-2020-5385 Privilege escalation in Dell Encryption Enterprise Medium 6.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-fpvq-32pp-84f9.