Data Protection Advisor vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product18 versions
The short answer

Data Protection Advisor is made by Emc. We track 9 published vulnerabilities listed under that exact name, across 18 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. Emc lists newer releases under their own names, such as Data Protection Advisor Collector, so check those pages too.

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Other names

Is Data Protection Advisor listed under other names? Yes.

Emc also lists Data Protection Advisor under more specific names, such as Data Protection Advisor Collector. Flaws listed only under those names are counted on their own pages, not here. If you run one of these, open its page for its own exploited flaws.

Known exploited

Which Data Protection Advisor vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Data Protection Advisor's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Data Protection Advisor flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 8.6%

    The DPA_Utilities.cProcessAuthenticationData function in EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) 5.5 through 5.8 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an...

    CVSS7.8Published20 Apr 2012
  2. 6.7%

    This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of EMC Data Protection Advisor 6.3.0.

    CVSS8.8Published19 Oct 2017
  3. 3.2%

    Integer overflow in the DPA_Utilities library in EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) 5.5 through 5.8 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a negative 64-bit value in a certain...

    CVSS5.0Published20 Apr 2012
  4. 2.6%

    EMC Data Protection Advisor prior to 6.4 contains a path traversal vulnerability.

    CVSS4.9Published9 Jul 2017
  5. 2.3%

    EMC Data Protection Advisor prior to 6.4 contains multiple blind SQL injection vulnerabilities.

    CVSS8.8Published9 Jul 2017
  6. 2.1%

    EMC Data Protection Advisor 6.3.x before patch 67 and 6.4.x before patch 130 contains undocumented accounts with hard-coded passwords and various privileges.

    CVSS9.8Published16 Mar 2018
  7. 0.3%

    Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor versions prior to 6.3 Patch 159 and Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor versions prior to 6.4 Patch 110 contain a hardcoded database account with administrative privileges.

    CVSS7.8Published12 Mar 2018
  8. 0.3%

    EMC Data Protection Advisor before 5.8.1 places cleartext account credentials in the DPA configuration file in unspecified circumstances, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading this...

    CVSS2.1Published1 Aug 2011
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We track 9 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Data Protection Advisor, across 18 versions.

None of Data Protection Advisor's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Emc also lists Data Protection Advisor under more specific names, such as Data Protection Advisor Collector. Flaws listed only under those names are counted on their own pages, not here. Open the release you run to see its own list.

Create a Precursor Intelligence account and track Data Protection Advisor. We match it against every published flaw, give each one a risk score from 0 to 100 and keep watching, so you hear about new ones as soon as we know, by email, in the app or by webhook.