High-privilege escalation via REST API input validation
Published Jul 22, 2026 · Updated Jul 22, 2026
Improper input validation in Dell PowerProtect Data Manager's REST API before 20.2.0.0 allows remote authenticated users to elevate privileges. Dell has not disclosed the affected endpoint, parameter, or erroneous validation operation within the REST API. Exploitation requires an existing high-privilege account and remote network access, and successful use grants authority beyond that account's original security scope.
Summary
What happened
Improper input validation in Dell PowerProtect Data Manager's REST API before 20.2.0.0 allows remote authenticated users to elevate privileges. Dell has not disclosed the affected endpoint, parameter, or erroneous validation operation within the REST API. Exploitation requires an existing high-privilege account and remote network access, and successful use grants authority beyond that account's original security scope.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-40712
- Published
- Jul 22, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 22, 2026
- Vendor
- Dell
- Product
- PowerProtect Data Manager
- Classifications
- CWE-20, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 22, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 22, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
Present is not the same as exploitable
Compare your product and version with the public record. A matching version still requires validation against your environment.
Is a vulnerable build present?
Compare these published version ranges with your installed build and any vendor patches.
- Affected versionversion=0 <20.2.0.0 or later
What conditions does exploitation require?
What is affected?
Attacks
What attackers are doing with it
Daily unique IPs observed by Shadowserver honeypots for known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs). Missing observations do not establish an absence of attacks.
Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
No public exploit references are available in this record.
Labels summarize the accepted research assessment. They do not indicate a test against your environment.
Technologies
Your stack
See the directory against your own environment.
Your stack
Check the software in your environment
Book a demo to see how Hinoki identifies affected software and validates exploitability in your environment.
Book a demo