Cross-site scripting in Dell Elastic Cloud Storage
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
Dell EMC ECS versions prior to 3.4.0.1 contain an XSS vulnerability. A remote authenticated malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to store malicious HTML or JavaScript code in a trusted application data store. When victim users access the data store through their browsers, the malicious code gets executed by the web browser in the context of the vulnerable web application.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Elastic Cloud Storage (Dell) Fixed in 3.4.0.1
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-5317
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-j43r-pqf8-cg43
- 2026-11-05 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
References
More Dell Emc Elastic Cloud Storage vulnerabilities
- TI-2019-02781 Missing brute-force protection in Dell Elastic Cloud Storage CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2020-04433 Exposure of resource to wrong sphere in Dell Elastic Cloud Storage CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2020-5317 · CVE Program
- CVE-2020-5317 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-j43r-pqf8-cg43 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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