CVE-2025-26478 Weak cryptography in ECS
An unauthenticated attacker with adjacent network access can exploit improper certificate validation in Dell ECS to disclose sensitive information.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-26478?
CVE-2025-26478 is a low-severity vulnerability in Dell ECS, published on 17 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Dell ECS version 3.8.1.4 and prior contain an Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with adjacent network access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Information disclosure.
Weakness: CWE-295
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-26478?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Dell Objectscale.
How do I fix CVE-2025-26478?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-26478 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-26478 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-26478 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Dell ECS
- CVE-2026-40636 Hardcoded credentials in ECS
- 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
- CVE-2026-22273 Hardcoded credentials in ObjectScale
- CVE-2025-26476 Hardcoded credentials in ECS
- CVE-2024-51540 Integer overflow in ECS
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j639-f4gq-49cp.