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CVE-2023-32479

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-32479 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Dell Encryption, Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise, and Dell Security Management Server versions prior to 11.9.0. It stems from improper Access Control List (ACL) permissions on non-default installation directories, allowing a local malicious user to replace binaries. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local access, but can lead to a complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 11.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dell:encryption:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 11.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dell:endpoint_security_suite_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 11.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dell:security_management_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.7MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
0.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0009 is in the 2nd percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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/000215881/dsa-2023-260
Vendor Advisory