Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-44291

HighRCE

Published: 04 December 2023

Published
04 December 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0289 86.6th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-44291 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Dell Powerprotect Data Manager Dm5500 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 13.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Dell DM5500 5.14.0.0 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the appliance. A remote attacker with high privileges could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the execution of arbitrary OS commands on the underlying OS, with the privileges of the…

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vulnerable application. Exploitation 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
powerprotect data manager dm5500 firmware
≤ 5.14.0.0

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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