CVE-2021-21517

high

Description

SRS Policy Manager 6.X is affected by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability due to a misconfigured XML parser that processes user-supplied DTD input without sufficient validation. A remote unauthenticated attacker can potentially exploit this vulnerability to read system files as a non-root user and may be able to temporarily disrupt the ESRS service.

References

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000183576/dsa-2021-045-dell-emc-srs-policy-manager-security-update-for-external-entity-injection-vulnerability

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-03-01

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00441