Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2025-45379 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Dell Cloudlink. Its CVSS base score is 8.4 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059); ranked at the 49th 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 SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2025-45379 is a command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) in Dell CloudLink versions prior to 8.2. The flaw allows a privileged user with a known password to execute arbitrary commands via the console, enabling shell access to the underlying system. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.4 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity due to its potential for significant impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Exploitation requires adjacent network access (AV:A) and possession of a privileged user's known password, with low attack complexity and no user interaction needed. A successful attack grants shell access with elevated privileges, allowing full system compromise through the changed scope (S:C), resulting in high-impact effects on the targeted system.
Dell has released a security update addressing this and other vulnerabilities in CloudLink, as detailed in DSA-2025-374. Practitioners should consult the advisory at https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000384363/dsa-2025-374-security-update-for-dell-cloudlink-multiple-security-vulnerabilities and upgrade affected systems to version 8.2 or later for mitigation.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-37886
Vulnerability Data
Dell CloudLink, versions prior to 8.2, contain a vulnerability where a privileged user with known password can run command injection from console to gain shell access of system.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover missing or incorrect command sanitization during development.
Input validation directly neutralizes or rejects special characters that would otherwise alter OS command structure.
Least privilege reduces the permissions available to any process that could be subverted by injected commands.
Least functionality restricts available OS commands and interpreters, limiting the blast radius of injection.
Secure engineering principles require proper neutralization of untrusted input before command construction.
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's SDLC practices directly require secure coding and input handling that blocks command-injection defects, yet the single broad outcome leaves many specific neutralization vectors and verification gaps unaddressed.
Routine patching/maintenance can remediate known command-injection CVEs in dependencies (partial forward) but does nothing to stop developers from introducing improper neutralization in custom code (none reverse).
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 and code review target insecure use of operating-system command interfaces, catching command-injection flaws introduced during development.