Dell PowerScale OneFS up to 9.5.x insufficient privileges

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Dell PowerScale OneFS up to 9.5.x and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to insufficient privileges. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-32494. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Dell PowerScale OneFS up to 9.5.x and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficient privileges vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-274. The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to perform an operation, leading to resultant weaknesses. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Dell PowerScale OneFS, 8.0.x-9.5.x, contains an improper handling of insufficient privileges vulnerability. A local privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to elevation of privilege and affect in compliance mode also.

The weakness was disclosed 08/16/2023 as dsa-2023-269. The advisory is shared at dell.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-32494 since 05/09/2023. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/20/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

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

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.7
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Class: Insufficient privileges
CWE: CWE-274 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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05/09/2023 🔍
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02/20/2026 +919 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: dell.com

Advisory: dsa-2023-269
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-32494 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-32494
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-237317

Entryinfo

Created: 08/16/2023 15:22
Updated: 02/20/2026 20:20
Changes: 08/16/2023 15:22 (47), 02/20/2026 20:20 (25)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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