CVE-2023-43066

MEDIUM

Dell Unity <5.3 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

Dell Unity prior to 5.3 contains a Restricted Shell Bypass vulnerability. This could allow an authenticated, local attacker to exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device CLI and issuing certain commands.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000213152/dsa-2023-141-dell-unity-unity-vsa-and-unity-xt-security-update-for-multiple-vulnerabilities

Scores

CVSS v3 5.1

EPSS 0.0000

EPSS Percentile 0.2%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-78

Status published

Products (3)

dell/unity_operating_environment < 5.3.0.0.5.120

dell/unity_xt_operating_environment < 5.3.0.0.5.120

dell/unityvsa_operating_environment < 5.3.0.0.5.120

Published Oct 23, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026