CVE-2021-21589 affects Dell EMC Unity, Unity XT, and UnityVSA versions prior to 5.1.0.0.5.394, stemming from a failure to exit on initialization errors. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.7) allows a local, authenticated Service user to potentially escalate privileges with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 5.1.0.0.5.394CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dell:emc_unity_operating_environment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 5.1.0.0.5.394CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dell:emc_unity_xt_operating_environment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 5.1.0.0.5.394CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dell:emc_unityvsa_operating_environment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.