Description

Dell PowerStore contains an OS Command Injection vulnerability. An authenticated user with limited privileges could potentially exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

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  "score": "8.8",
  "pubDate": "2026-09-01T16:17:06.240Z",
  "pubdate": "2026-09-01T16:17:06.240Z",
  "executiveSummary": "Dell PowerStore is susceptible to an OS Command Injection vulnerability, which poses a critical security risk to the integrity and confidentiality of the storage appliance.\nThe vulnerability allows an authenticated user, even one possessing restricted or limited privileges, to inject and execute arbitrary system-level commands.\nBecause the underlying process operates with root-level permissions, successful exploitation enables the attacker to gain full administrative control over the appliance's operating system.\nThis flaw effectively bypasses intended authorization controls, potentially leading to unauthorized data access, service disruption, or the installation of persistent malicious backdoors.\nThe risk is categorized as high due to the elevation of privileges from a limited account to root. Exploitation requires initial authentication to the management interface, but no further administrative rights are needed.\nDefensive posture depends heavily on strict access control and the application of security patches provided by the vendor to remediate the underlying logic error in the affected system components.",
  "technicalDetails": "The vulnerability is an OS Command Injection flaw residing within the management interface or backend logic of Dell PowerStore.\nThe root cause of this vulnerability is the improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command. The application fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input before passing it to a system shell or a command execution function, such as system(), exec(), or popen().\nAn authenticated user with limited privileges can manipulate input fields or API requests to append unauthorized shell metacharacters (e.g., semicolon, pipe, ampersand, or backticks).\nThe attack flow proceeds as follows: First, the attacker establishes an authenticated session with the Dell PowerStore management interface. Second, the attacker identifies a vulnerable parameter that reflects input into a system command execution context. Third, the attacker crafts a malicious payload containing shell operators designed to break out of the intended command structure. Fourth, the injected payload is processed by the underlying OS shell, executing the arbitrary command with the effective privileges of the application process.\nSince the affected component runs with elevated permissions, the resulting command execution inherits root privileges. This allows the attacker to perform unrestricted operations, including reading sensitive configuration files, modifying system binary files, terminating security-critical processes, or exfiltrating data stored on the appliance.\nThe exploit does not require physical access to the storage hardware; it can be performed remotely via the management network, assuming the attacker has reached the necessary authentication state. The lack of robust input validation and command parameterization allows for arbitrary code execution in the context of the root user, essentially nullifying the intended role-based access control (RBAC) mechanisms implemented by the vendor.\nPost-exploitation activities are limited only by the attacker's intent; the ability to execute code as root allows for the full compromise of the appliance, which in a storage environment, may lead to cascading impacts across the entire data infrastructure managed by the PowerStore system."
}