Dell Wyse Management Suite up to 5.5 path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in Dell Wyse Management Suite up to 5.5. It has been classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-49506. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Dell Wyse Management Suite up to 5.5. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Dell Wyse Management Suite, versions prior to WMS 5.5 HF1, contain an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Remote Code Execution.

The advisory is shared at dell.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-49506 since 05/31/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/01/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 323878 (Dell Wyse Management Suite < 5.5.0.777 Multiple Vulnerabilities (DSA-2026-225)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (323878). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Dell

Name

• Wyse Management Suite

Version

• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
• 5.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.dell.com/

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