CVE-2026-26946 Privilege escalation in ECS
A local high-privileged attacker can exploit improper privilege management in Dell ECS and ObjectScale operating systems to elevate privileges.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-26946?
CVE-2026-26946 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dell ECS, published on 11 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, 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 improper privilege management vulnerability in the OS. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to elevation of privileges.
Weakness: CWE-269
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-26946?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Dell Objectscale.
How do I fix CVE-2026-26946?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-26946 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-26946 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-26946 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-gm85-wrgm-h2qc.