Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-29499

Medium

Published: 19 July 2021

Published
19 July 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0016 36.9th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-29499 is a medium-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Dell Emc Powerstore. Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 36.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Dell EMC PowerStore versions prior to 1.0.3.0.5.006 contain an OS Command Injection vulnerability in PowerStore X environment . A locally authenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the execution of arbitrary OS command on the PowerStore underlying OS.…

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Exploiting may lead to a system take over by an attacker.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

dell
emc powerstore
≤ 1.0.3.0.5.007

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

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