CVE-2021-36287 Command injection in VNX2

What is CVE-2021-36287?

CVE-2021-36287 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Dell VNX2, published on 8 Apr 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Dell VNX2 for file version 8.1.21.266 and earlier, contain an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability which may lead unauthenticated users to execute commands on the system.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-36287?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Dell Emc Unity Operating Environment.

How do I fix CVE-2021-36287?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-36287 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2021-36287 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-36287 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Dell VNX2

• CVE-2021-36294 Auth bypass in VNX Control Station Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-36288 Path traversal in VNX2 High 8.6
• CVE-2021-36289 Information disclosure in VNX Control Station High 7.8
• CVE-2019-3741 Information disclosure in Unity High 7.8
• CVE-2018-11064 Privilege escalation in Dell EMC Unity High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hwj9-m84w-q8mw.