Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NSummary
CVE-2026-54468 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Dell Unisphere For Powermax. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data from Local System (T1005); ranked at the 22th 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 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-6 (Least Privilege) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-42872
Vulnerability Data
Dell Unisphere for PowerMax, version(s) 10.3.0.5 and prior, contain(s) a path traversal vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Path traversal vulnerability enabling remote reading of arbitrary files directly maps to Data from Local System (T1005) and File and Directory Discovery (T1083).
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Enforces access-control decisions so that a low-privileged remote user cannot traverse directories and read arbitrary files outside the intended scope.
Limits the privileges granted to remote users, reducing the attack surface that a path-traversal exploit could leverage.
Validates and sanitizes user-supplied path or filename input to block traversal sequences before file-system access occurs.
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.