CVE-2024-22454
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedDell PowerProtect Data Manager, version 19.15 and prior versions, contain a weak password recovery mechanism for forgotten passwords. A remote unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to unauthorized access to the application with privileges of the compromised account. The attacker could retrieve the reset password token without authorization and then perform the password change
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data<= 19.15CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scopedPowerProtect Data Manager version 19.16 or later (the version that addresses DSA-2024-061)
- 1. Review the Dell support article DSA-2024-061 at https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000222025/ for the complete list of security fixes included in the update
- 2. Download the latest Dell PowerProtect Data Manager security update from the Dell support portal
- 3. Schedule a maintenance window following standard change management procedures
- 4. Back up the current PowerProtect Data Manager configuration and data according to Dell best practices
- 5. Apply the security update following the Dell-provided installation instructions
- 6. Verify the update was applied successfully by checking the PowerProtect Data Manager version
- 7. Confirm the password reset mechanism now properly validates authorization before issuing reset tokens
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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