CVE-2024-22461 Command injection in RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

What is CVE-2024-22461?

CVE-2024-22461 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, published on 13 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines 6.0.x contains an OS Command injection vulnerability. A low privileged remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability by running any command as root, leading to gaining of root-level access and compromise of complete system.

Weakness: CWE-78, CWE-347

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-22461?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Dell Recoverpoint for Virtual Machines.

How do I fix CVE-2024-22461?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-22461 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-2024-22461 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-22461 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

• CVE-2026-22769 Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (RP4VMs) Use of Hard-coded Credentials Exploited Critical 10.0
• 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-2024-22426 Command injection in RecoverPoint for VMs High 7.2
• 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-pg94-fqwx-cjcv.