Description

Dell PowerStore contains a Code Injection vulnerability. An authenticated user with limited privileges could potentially exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

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  "score": "8.8",
  "pubDate": "2026-09-01T14:17:37.470Z",
  "pubdate": "2026-09-01T14:17:37.470Z",
  "executiveSummary": "A critical code injection vulnerability exists within Dell PowerStore, allowing for unauthorized execution of arbitrary commands with elevated system privileges.\nThe vulnerability allows an authenticated user, even one with limited or low-level privileges, to bypass security controls and execute commands as the root user.\nThis flaw presents a significant security risk, as successful exploitation results in a full system compromise, enabling the attacker to gain persistent control over the storage appliance, access sensitive data, or manipulate system configurations.\nThe exploitation of this vulnerability necessitates a valid authentication session, meaning an attacker must have initial access to the system. Once authenticated, the attacker can leverage the injection vector to escalate privileges to the root level.\nThis vulnerability is particularly severe due to the potential for complete loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the PowerStore environment. Dell PowerStore administrators must address this issue with high priority to prevent unauthorized administrative control over the storage infrastructure.",
  "technicalDetails": "The vulnerability is rooted in a code injection flaw within Dell PowerStore, where input provided by an authenticated user is insufficiently sanitized or validated before being processed by the underlying operating system or system-level services.\nThe attack flow begins with the adversary establishing an authenticated session with the PowerStore management interface or associated CLI. While the user is restricted to limited privileges, the application incorrectly handles user-supplied input when invoking system commands, shell scripts, or internal functions that interact with the host operating system.\nBy injecting malicious payloads—typically shell metacharacters or command sequences—the attacker can break out of the intended application context and force the system to execute unauthorized code. Because the vulnerable service or daemon runs with root privileges, the injected payload inherits these elevated permissions, effectively bypassing existing access control lists and role-based access control (RBAC) mechanisms.\nThe vulnerable component likely involves a backend process responsible for processing administrative requests or system configuration tasks that fail to utilize parameterized interfaces or safe execution APIs. Instead, the application passes unsanitized input directly into system shell calls (e.g., system(), popen(), or exec() equivalents).\nUpon successful injection, the attacker can perform a variety of post-exploitation activities, including but not limited to: installing persistent backdoors, modifying system files to weaken security, exfiltrating encrypted or clear-text data residing on the appliance, and altering storage configurations to facilitate data destruction or denial-of-service.\nThe technical requirement for this exploit is a valid authentication credential; however, because the privilege escalation occurs from a 'limited user' state to 'root', the depth of defense is compromised once the attacker is inside the management perimeter. The vulnerability does not necessarily require direct network-level access to the root service but relies on the interface that interacts with that service."
}