CVE-2026-79683 Path traversal in PowerStore 1000T

What is CVE-2026-79683?

CVE-2026-79683 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Dell PowerStore 1000T, published on 1 Sep 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Dell PowerStore contains a Protection Mechanism Failure vulnerability. An authenticated user with limited privileges could potentially exploit this vulnerability to write attacker-controlled content to arbitrary filesystem paths.

Weakness: CWE-693

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-79683?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Dell Powerstoreos.

How do I fix CVE-2026-79683?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-79683 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2026-79683 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-79683 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Dell PowerStore 1000T

• CVE-2026-58574 Missing authorization in PowerStore 1000T Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26869 Information disclosure in PowerStore Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-79687 Missing authorization in PowerStore 1000T Critical 9.0
• CVE-2023-32478 Information disclosure in PowerStore Critical 9.0
• CVE-2026-58567 Command injection in PowerStore 1000T High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r699-gp3q-8j4v.