Dell Secure Connect Gateway SCG Application and Appliance path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Dell Secure Connect Gateway SCG Application and Appliance up to 5.31.x. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-46363. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Dell Secure Connect Gateway SCG Application and Appliance up to 5.31.x and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-23. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize sequences such as ".." that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Dell Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) 5.0 Application and Appliance version(s) 5.26.00.00 - 5.30.00.00, contain a Relative Path Traversal vulnerability in the SCG exposed for an internal collection download REST API (if this REST API is enabled by Admin user from UI). A low privileged attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to allowing relative path traversal to restricted resources.

The weakness was presented by Ahmed Y. Elmogy as dsa-2025-386. The advisory is shared at dell.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-46363 since 04/23/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. 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 10/30/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 5.32.00 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Dell

Name

• Secure Connect Gateway SCG Application and 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
• 5.15
• 5.16
• 5.17
• 5.18
• 5.19
• 5.20
• 5.21
• 5.22
• 5.23
• 5.24
• 5.25
• 5.26
• 5.27
• 5.28
• 5.29
• 5.30
• 5.31

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.dell.com/

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