CVE-2026-28261 Information disclosure in Elastic Cloud Storage
A local low-privileged attacker can read sensitive secrets from log files to potentially escalate privileges and access the system.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-28261?
CVE-2026-28261 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, published on 8 Apr 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, version 3.8.1.7 and prior, and Dell ObjectScale, versions prior to 4.1.0.3 and version 4.2.0.0, contains an Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to secret exposure. The attacker may be able to use the exposed secret to access the vulnerable system with privileges of the compromised account.
Weakness: CWE-532
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-28261?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, Dell Objectscale.
How do I fix CVE-2026-28261?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-28261 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-28261 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-28261 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Dell Elastic Cloud Storage
- 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-j4mw-2jfj-wq9h.