CVE-2013-3278 — EMC VPLEX before VPLEX GeoSynchrony 5.2 SP1 uses cleartext for storage of the LDAP/AD bind password, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the management-server configuration file

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EMC VPLEX before VPLEX GeoSynchrony 5.2 SP1 uses cleartext for storage of the LDAP/AD bind password, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the management-server configuration file

Published Oct 1, 2013

4.9

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.34%

Description

EMC VPLEX before VPLEX GeoSynchrony 5.2 SP1 uses cleartext for storage of the LDAP/AD bind password, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the management-server configuration file.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.34% 0.00338

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00338

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	0.34% (0.00338)	24.92th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.34% (0.00338)	25.40th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00057)	15.03th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-255

References (1)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-09/0135.html
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-09/0135.html		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner dell

Published Oct 1, 2013

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Apr 26, 2013

Link CVE-2013-3278

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2013-3278

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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