Dell PowerProtect Data Manager up to 19.15 password recovery

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A vulnerability was found in Dell PowerProtect Data Manager up to 19.15. It has been declared as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation leads to password recovery. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-22454. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Dell PowerProtect Data Manager up to 19.15. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a password recovery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-640. The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, version 19.15 and prior versions, contain a weak password recovery mechanism for forgotten passwords. A remote unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to unauthorized access to the application with privileges of the compromised account. The attacker could retrieve the reset password token without authorization and then perform the password change

The weakness was disclosed 02/13/2024 as dsa-2024-061. The advisory is shared for download at dell.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-22454 since 01/10/2024. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. 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 02/13/2024). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1552.

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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Productinfo

Vendor

• Dell

Name

• PowerProtect Data Manager

Version

• 19.0
• 19.1
• 19.2
• 19.3
• 19.4
• 19.5
• 19.6
• 19.7
• 19.8
• 19.9
• 19.10
• 19.11
• 19.12
• 19.13
• 19.14
• 19.15

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.dell.com/

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