CVE-2024-22426 Command injection in RecoverPoint for VMs

What is CVE-2024-22426?

CVE-2024-22426 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for VMs, published on 16 Feb 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines 5.3.x, 6.0.SP1 contains an OS Command injection vulnerability. An unauthenticated remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to execute arbitrary operating system commands, which will get executed in the context of the root user, resulting in a complete system compromise.

Weakness: CWE-78, CWE-434

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-22426?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Dell Recoverpoint for Virtual Machines.

How do I fix CVE-2024-22426?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-22426 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-2024-22426 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-22426 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Dell RecoverPoint for VMs

• CVE-2026-22769 Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (RP4VMs) Use of Hard-coded Credentials Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-22461 Command injection in RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines High 8.8
• CVE-2016-6650 Security feature bypass in EMC RecoverPoint versions prior to 5.0 and EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines versions prior to 5.0 High 7.5
• CVE-2016-6649 Command injection in EMC RecoverPoint and EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines EMC RecoverPoint versions before 4.4.1.1 and EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines versions before 5.0 Medium 6.7
• CVE-2025-21105 Privilege escalation in RecoverPoint for VMs Medium 6.6

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3prf-2gpr-5j48.