CVE-2025-43992 Auth bypass in ECS
Unauthenticated attackers can bypass authentication in Geo replication to access data in transit on Dell ECS and ObjectScale systems.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-43992?
CVE-2025-43992 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Dell ECS, published on 11 May 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Dell ECS versions 3.8.1.0 through 3.8.1.7 and Dell ObjectScale versions prior to 4.3.0.0, contains an authentication bypass by assumed-immutable data vulnerability in Geo replication. An unauthenticated attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to unauthorized access to data in transit.
Weakness: CWE-302
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43992?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Dell Objectscale.
How do I fix CVE-2025-43992?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-43992 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2025-43992 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43992 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-g6xr-2p64-fh4g.