Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NSummary
CVE-2025-22479 is a low-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Dell Storage Manager. Its CVSS base score is 3.5 (Low).
Operationally, ranked at the 16th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-13606
Vulnerability Data
Dell Storage Center - Dell Storage Manager, version(s) 20.0.21, contain(s) an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with adjacent network access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Script injection.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Enforces validation of user-supplied pathnames before filesystem access, directly blocking the CWE-22 traversal that leads to script injection.
Enforces access-control decisions on directory and file resources so that even a successful traversal cannot reach or execute injected scripts.
Restricts network traffic from adjacent segments, reducing the attack surface for the unauthenticated adjacent-network vector described in the CVE.
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.
Patching/maintenance can remediate known path-traversal flaws in deployed software (partial prevention of exploitability) but does nothing to stop the coding defect from being introduced in the first place.
PR.AA-05 defines and reviews access policies but does not address code-level pathname neutralization, so neither direction prevents CWE-22.
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.
Security testing in development catches path traversal via static/dynamic analysis.
Secure SDLC mandates input validation and path sanitization that directly prevent path traversal.
Application security requirements include rules for safe file handling and canonicalization.
Secure architecture principles require least-privilege file access and directory isolation.
Secure coding standards explicitly forbid unsafe path construction and mandate safe APIs.
Information access restriction limits which files an application may read or write.