Dell Unity up to 5.4 os command injection

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A vulnerability was found in Dell Unity up to 5.4. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to os command injection. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-24383. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Dell Unity up to 5.4. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Dell Unity, version(s) 5.4 and prior, contain(s) an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files. This vulnerability is considered critical as it can be leveraged to delete critical system files as root. Dell recommends customers to upgrade at the earliest opportunity.

The weakness was disclosed by Prowser as dsa-2025-116. The advisory is shared at dell.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-24383 since 01/21/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/28/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 5.5.0.0.5.259 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Dell

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• Unity

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• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.dell.com/

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