# CVE-2025-21110: Privilege escalation in Data Lakehouse

> A local high-privileged attacker can exploit unnecessary privileges in Dell Data Lakehouse to cause a denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 14 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3q8m-rc7h-frcf

## What is CVE-2025-21110?

CVE-2025-21110 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dell Data Lakehouse, published on 14 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Dell Data Lakehouse, versions prior to 1.5.0.0, contains an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-250 (Execution with Unnecessary Privileges)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-21110?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dell Data Lakehouse.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-21110?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-21110 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-21110 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21110 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Dell Data Lakehouse

- [CVE-2024-37143](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37143/): Path traversal in Dell Data Lakehouse (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2025-46608](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46608/): Privilege escalation in Data Lakehouse (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2024-37144](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37144/): Information disclosure in Dell Data Lakehouse (high 8.2)
- [CVE-2024-38302](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38302/): Information disclosure in Dell Data Lakehouse (medium 6.8)
- [CVE-2024-47481](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47481/): Missing authorization in Dell Data Lakehouse (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-21110 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-21110 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dell Data Lakehouse, published on 14 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21110 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Dell Data Lakehouse. 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-2025-21110/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21110/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21110
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21110
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21110

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21110/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.