Local privilege escalation via undocumented appliance accounts
Published Jan 21, 2022 · Updated Sep 17, 2024
Privilege escalation in Dell Solutions Enabler Virtual Appliance before 9.2.3.1 allows local users to gain privileged appliance access. The shipped appliance image contains undocumented user accounts with unnecessary privileges, but Dell has not disclosed their names or authentication path. Exploitation requires existing local low-privileged access and grants privileged access beyond the intended authorization boundary.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Dell Solutions Enabler Virtual Appliance before 9.2.3.1 allows local users to gain privileged appliance access. The shipped appliance image contains undocumented user accounts with unnecessary privileges, but Dell has not disclosed their names or authentication path. Exploitation requires existing local low-privileged access and grants privileged access beyond the intended authorization boundary.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-36339
- Published
- Jan 21, 2022
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Vendor
- Dell Technologies
- Product
- Solutions Enabler Virtual Appliance
- Classifications
- CWE-250, T1078.001
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 21, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 17, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <9.2.2.2
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