A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Dell PowerProtect Data Manager DM5500 Appliance up to 5.14. Affected is some unknown functionality of the component PPOE. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Dell DM5500 contains a path traversal vulnerability in PPOE Component. A remote attacker with high privileges could potentially exploit this vulnerability to overwrite the files stored on the server filesystem.

The weakness was published 12/04/2023 as dsa-2023-425. The advisory is shared for download at dell.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-44306 since 09/28/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 12/04/2023). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Productinfo

Vendor

• Dell

Name

• PowerProtect Data Manager DM5500 Appliance

Version

• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
• 5.5
• 5.6
• 5.7
• 5.8
• 5.9
• 5.10
• 5.11
• 5.12
• 5.13
• 5.14

License

• commercial

CPE 2.3info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CPE 2.2info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CVSSv4info

CVSSv3info

CVSSv2info

Exploitinginfo

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Countermeasuresinfo

Timelineinfo

Sourcesinfo

Entryinfo

Discussion