# CVE-2024-30473: Privilege escalation in ECS

> A remote high-privileged attacker can exploit a user management flaw in Dell ECS to gain access to unauthorized endpoints and escalate privileges.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-95wh-v7qr-65p8

## What is CVE-2024-30473?

CVE-2024-30473 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dell ECS, published on 18 Jul 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Dell ECS, versions prior to 3.8.1, contain a privilege elevation vulnerability in user management. A remote high privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, gaining access to unauthorized end points.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-30473?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dell Elastic Cloud Storage.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-30473?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-30473 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-30473 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-30473 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Dell ECS

- [CVE-2026-40636](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-40636/): Hardcoded credentials in ECS (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2017-8021](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-8021/): EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) before 3.1 is affected by an undocumented account vulnerability that could potentially be leveraged by malic (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-22273](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-22273/): Hardcoded credentials in ObjectScale (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2025-26476](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-26476/): Hardcoded credentials in ECS (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2024-51540](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-51540/): Integer overflow in ECS (high 8.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-30473 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-30473 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dell ECS, published on 18 Jul 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-30473 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Dell ECS. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-30473/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-30473/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-30473
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-30473
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30473

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-30473/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.