Dell EMC VxRail Appliance up to 7.0.519 privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Dell EMC VxRail Appliance up to 7.0.519. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-38487. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Dell EMC VxRail Appliance up to 7.0.519 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

api-gateway container running with root privilege would allow an attacker to escape the container and access host system to perform unintended actions.

It is possible to read the advisory at dell.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-38487 since 06/18/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. 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 06/16/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 7.0.520 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-55624). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: EMC VxRail Appliance 7.0.520

Timelineinfo

06/18/2024 CVE reserved
06/16/2026 +728 days Advisory disclosed
06/16/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
06/16/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: dell.com

Advisory: dsa-2024-247
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-38487 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-38487
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-371363
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/16/2026 19:52
Updated: 06/16/2026 21:08
Changes: 06/16/2026 19:52 (64), 06/16/2026 21:08 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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