Impact of Data Insight Cleartext Password Vulnerability

A vulnerability was discovered in Arctera/Veritas Data Insight version 7.1.1 and prior due to account credentials potentially being sent in cleartext over the network.  This vulnerability only impacts Data Insight implementations which connect to a Dell Isilon OneFS server that is configured to support unencrypted HTTP requests.

Affected Versions

Arctera/Veritas Data Insight versions: 7.1.1, 7.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.1, 7.0, 6.6.2, 6.6.1, 6.6, 6.5.2, 6.5.1, 6.5, 6.4.1, 6.4, 6.3.1, 6.3. Earlier unsupported versions may be affected as well.

About Remediation

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