Dell Wyse Management Suite up to 5.1 absolute path traversal

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Dell Wyse Management Suite up to 5.1. Affected is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in absolute path traversal. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-36574. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Dell Wyse Management Suite up to 5.1. This affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a absolute path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-36. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize absolute path sequences such as "/abs/path" that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Dell Wyse Management Suite, versions prior to WMS 5.2, contain an Absolute Path Traversal vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Information disclosure and Unauthorized access.

The weakness was presented by Justin Hocquel Ncia as dsa-2025-226. It is possible to read the advisory at dell.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-36574 since 04/15/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/12/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 238309 (Dell Wyse Management Suite < 5.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (DSA-2025-226)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (238309). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Dell

Name

• Wyse Management Suite

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• 5.0
• 5.1

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.dell.com/

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