Dell PowerStore Priv Escalation via Protection Mechanism Failure
CVE-2026-79684 Published on September 1, 2026
Dell PowerStore contains a Protection Mechanism Failure vulnerability. An authenticated user with limited privileges could potentially exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions and gain escalated privileges.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-79684 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Protection Mechanism Failure
The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. This weakness covers three distinct situations. A "missing" protection mechanism occurs when the application does not define any mechanism against a certain class of attack. An "insufficient" protection mechanism might provide some defenses - for example, against the most common attacks - but it does not protect against everything that is intended. Finally, an "ignored" mechanism occurs when a mechanism is available and in active use within the product, but the developer has not applied it in some code path.
Affected Versions
Dell PowerStore 500T:- Before 4.1.0.6-2771237 or later is affected.
- Before 4.1.0.6-2771237 or later is affected.
- Before 4.1.0.6-2771237 or later is affected.
- Before 4.1.0.6-2771237 or later is affected.
- Before 4.1.0.6-2771237 or later is affected.
- Before 4.1.0.6-2771237 or later is affected.
- Before 4.1.0.6-2771237 or later is affected.
- Before 4.1.0.6-2771237 or later is affected.
- Before 4.1.0.6-2771237 or later is affected.
- Before 4.1.0.6-2771237 or later is affected.
- Before 4.1.0.6-2771237 or later is affected.
- Before 4.1.0.6-2771237 or later is affected.
- Before 4.3.1.2-2771239 or later is affected.
- Before 4.3.1.2-2771239 or later is affected.
- Before 4.3.1.2-2771239 or later is affected.
- Before 4.3.1.2-2771239 or later is affected.
- Before 4.3.1.2-2771239 or later is affected.
- Before 4.3.1.2-2771239 or later is affected.
- Before 4.3.1.2-2771239 or later is affected.
- Before 4.3.1.2-2771239 or later is affected.
- Before 4.3.1.2-2771239 or later is affected.
- Before 4.3.1.2-2771239 or later is affected.
- Before 4.3.1.2-2771239 or later is affected.
- Before 4.3.1.2-2771239 or later is affected.