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CVE-2021-21524

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-21524 is a critical untrusted deserialization vulnerability affecting Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) and Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR) versions prior to 4.5.0.1. This flaw allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to achieve arbitrary privileged code execution on the vulnerable application. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it poses a severe risk of complete system compromise due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity. Despite its critical severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dell:storage_monitoring_and_reporting:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 4.5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dell:storage_resource_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0324 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

dell.com / support/kbdoc/en-us/000184753/dsa-2021-054-dell-emc-srm-and-dell-emc-storage-monitoring-and-reporting-smr-security-update-for-multiple-vulnerabilities
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