# CVE-2025-46366: Privilege escalation in CloudLink

> A privileged user can exploit this vulnerability to achieve parallel privilege escalation or access the database to obtain confidential information.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:** 5 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-cwm4-q4jj-2w4v

## What is CVE-2025-46366?

CVE-2025-46366 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dell CloudLink, published on 5 Nov 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Dell CloudLink, versions prior to 8.1.1, contain a vulnerability where a privileged user may exploit and gain parallel privilege escalation or access to the database to obtain confidential information.

Weakness: CWE-256 (Plaintext Storage of a Password)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-46366?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dell Cloudlink.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-46366?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-46366 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-46366 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-46366 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Dell CloudLink

- [CVE-2022-34379](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-34379/): Auth bypass in CloudLink (critical 9.4)
- [CVE-2022-34380](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-34380/): Auth bypass in CloudLink (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2025-45378](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-45378/): Command injection in CloudLink (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2025-46364](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46364/): Privilege escalation in CloudLin (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2021-36312](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-36312/): Hardcoded credentials in CloudLink (critical 9.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-46366 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-46366 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dell CloudLink, published on 5 Nov 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-2025-46366 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Dell CloudLink. 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-2025-46366/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46366/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-46366
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46366
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-46366

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46366/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.