Local privilege escalation
Published Jul 15, 2026 · Updated Jul 15, 2026
Improper privilege management in Dell PowerScale OneFS allows local users with high privileges to gain elevated privileges through local access. Dell has not disclosed the affected component or the privilege-management operation that mishandles access, so the code-level mechanism remains unavailable. Exploitation requires a high-privileged account with local CLI access, and successful exploitation grants elevated privileges over the cluster.
Summary
What happened
Improper privilege management in Dell PowerScale OneFS allows local users with high privileges to gain elevated privileges through local access. Dell has not disclosed the affected component or the privilege-management operation that mishandles access, so the code-level mechanism remains unavailable. Exploitation requires a high-privileged account with local CLI access, and successful exploitation grants elevated privileges over the cluster.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-49501
- Published
- Jul 15, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 15, 2026
- Vendor
- Dell Technologies
- Product
- PowerScale OneFS
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 15, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 15, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <9.10.1.8 or later
- Affected versionversion=0 <9.13.1.0 or later
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