CVE-2026-22768
Published: 01 April 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-22768 is a high-severity Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE-732) vulnerability in Dell Appsync. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 2.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-6 (Least Privilege).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Least privilege limits low-privileged local attackers from gaining unauthorized access to critical resources with incorrect permissions, directly preventing privilege escalation.
Access enforcement ensures the system mediates and restricts access to critical resources according to defined permissions, mitigating exploitation of incorrect assignments.
Configuration settings establish and maintain correct permissions on critical resources, preventing vulnerabilities from incorrect permission assignments.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Local privilege escalation via incorrect permissions on critical resource directly matches Exploitation for Privilege Escalation.
NVD Description
Dell AppSync, version(s) 4.6.0, contain(s) an Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Elevation of privileges.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2026-22768 is an Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability (CWE-732) in Dell AppSync version 4.6.0. Published on 2026-04-01T13:16:33.950, it has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
A low-privileged attacker with local access can exploit this vulnerability by leveraging incorrect permissions on a critical resource. The attack requires low complexity and user interaction but can result in elevation of privileges, granting high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability without changing scope.
Dell’s security advisory (DSA-2026-163) at https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000446965/dsa-2026-163-security-update-for-dell-appsync-vulnerabilities details a security update addressing this and other Dell AppSync vulnerabilities, providing mitigation through patching.
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