CVE-2021-21524

Dell SRM versions prior to 4.5.0.1 and Dell SMR versions prior to 4.5.0.1 contain an Untrusted Deserialization Vulnerability. A remote unauthenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to arbitrary privileged code execution on the vulnerable application. The severity is Critical as this may lead to system compromise by unauthenticated attackers.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
• An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/586.html

References

• https://www.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
• https://www.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