Dell Encryption and Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise Security Policy Overwrite Vulnerability

Affected Products:

• Dell Encryption Enterprise - v8.4.0 to 10.0
• Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise - v1.0.0 to 2.0

Details:

CVE Identifier: CVE-2018-15766

Severity: Medium

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On install, Dell Encryption versions prior 10.0.1 and Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise versions prior 2.0.1 overwrites 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 that are modified.

The following Dell Data Security releases contain resolutions to this vulnerability:

• Dell Encryption version 10.0.1 and later
• Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise version 2.0.1 and later

Customers can download Dell Encryption software from https://www.dell.com/support/home/product-support/product/dell-data-protection-encryption/drivers.

Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise software is made available to customers on their ddpe.credant.com accounts, or can be obtained through Dell ProSupport.

Workaround:

For affected devices, the minimum password length policy should be changed manually to what is wanted for the current environment.

• If Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise or Dell Encryption Enterprise’s Encryption Management Agent is installed on a domain controller or a device that is not joined to a domain, the default minimum password length must be changed on the local device.
• If Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise or Dell Encryption Enterprise’s Encryption Management Agent is installed on a device that is joined to a domain, the default minimum password length must be changed within the enterprise’s Group Policy Management console.

Default value for this property is 7 in most configurations.

This Microsoft KB article outlines how to modify this setting:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd277399.aspx

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