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CriticalCVECVE-2026-63688

Dell CSM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Admin Access and Root on Kubernetes Nodes

The Hacker News·Source published ·1 min read·Video available
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What happened?

Dell has released security updates to address multiple critical security flaws in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) that could be exploited by bad actors to take over susceptible systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-63688 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A missing authentication for critical function vulnerability in the csm-authorization-storage gRPC server that an

Key details

  • Dell released security updates for multiple critical flaws in Container Storage Modules (CSM).
  • CVE-2026-63688 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to obtain storage backend admin credentials.
  • CVE-2026-63692 lets unauthenticated network attackers bypass authentication and gain admin privileges.

Affected

  • All versions of CSM prior to 1.17.0 are affected.

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