CVE-2025-43995 (GCVE-0-2025-43995)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-24 14:09 – Updated: 2026-02-26 16:57
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Summary
Dell Storage Center - Dell Storage Manager, version(s) 20.1.21, contain(s) an Improper Authentication vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Protection mechanism bypass. Authentication Bypass in DSM Data Collector. An unauthenticated remote attacker can access APIs exposed by ApiProxy.war in DataCollectorEar.ear by using a special SessionKey and UserId. These userid are special users created in compellentservicesapi for special purposes.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Dell Dell Storage Manager Affected: N/A , < 2020 R1.21 (semver)
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Date Public
2025-10-24 05:00
Credits
Dell would like to thank Tenable for reporting the issue.
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