Security Resilience

CVE-2023-32465

Dell Powerprotect Cyber Recovery 19.4 – 19.13.0.2

Published
14 June 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0073 53th percentile
Risk Priority 65 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-32465 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax (CWE-644) vulnerability in Dell Powerprotect Cyber Recovery. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique OS Credential Dumping (T1003); ranked in the top 47% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A05:2025 Injection

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Dell Power Protect Cyber Recovery, contains an Authentication Bypass vulnerability. An attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to unauthorized admin access to the Cyber Recovery application. Exploitation may lead to complete system takeover by an attacker.

CWE(s)
CWE-644

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1003 OS Credential Dumping Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to dump credentials to obtain account login and credential material, normally in the form of a hash or a clear text password.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.001 LSASS Memory Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to access credential material stored in the process memory of the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS).
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.004 LSA Secrets Credential Access
Adversaries with SYSTEM access to a host may attempt to access Local Security Authority (LSA) secrets, which can contain a variety of different credential materials, such as credentials for service accounts.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.007 Proc Filesystem Credential Access
Adversaries may gather credentials from the proc filesystem or `/proc`.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.008 /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to dump the contents of <code>/etc/passwd</code> and <code>/etc/shadow</code> to enable offline password cracking.
attack.mitre.org →
T1011 Exfiltration Over Other Network Medium Exfiltration
Adversaries may attempt to exfiltrate data over a different network medium than the command and control channel.
attack.mitre.org →
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

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CVE-2026-21762Shared CWE-644
CVE-2025-64425Shared CWE-644
CVE-2025-2950Shared CWE-644
CVE-2024-51454Shared CWE-644
CVE-2026-54477Shared CWE-644
CVE-2025-13803Shared CWE-644
CVE-2026-33149Shared CWE-644
CVE-2025-64484Shared CWE-644

Affected Assets

dell
powerprotect cyber recovery
19.4 — 19.13.0.2

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V4.2.3

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 partial match
blocks

Secure SDLC practices directly require proper output encoding and header sanitization to prevent scripting injection.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.5.24 Information security incident management planning and preparation partial match
removes
A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
blocks

Secure development lifecycle mandates input validation and output encoding that directly prevents header-injection flaws.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
blocks

A.8.26 only requires that security requirements (including resilience against injections) be identified and specified during development; it does not itself neutralize HTTP header syntax or stop exploitation of CWE-644

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
blocks

A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (including data validation/sanitization, distrust external input, defense-in-depth, secure architecture reviews against attack patterns) that reach output encoding and header sanitization for this XSS-like weakness in many but not all cases; a bounded remainder exists for non-web or non-HTTP contexts and incomplete application of the principles.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards require proper escaping or rejection of scripting syntax in HTTP headers.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance partial match
finds

Security testing catches header-injection issues before release, covering most of the weakness.

References