CVE-2021-21524

Storage Monitoring And Reporting vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

3.2%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

Dell SRM versions prior to 4.5.0.1 and Dell SMR versions prior to 4.5.0.1 contain an Untrusted Deserialization Vulnerability. A remote unauthenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to arbitrary privileged code execution on the vulnerable application. The severity is Critical as this may lead to system compromise by unauthenticated attackers.

Affected vendor

Dell

Affected product

Storage Monitoring And Reporting

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published

2021-04-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Dell Storage Monitoring And Reporting is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-21524.
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