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🛡️ CVE-2026-22271 — elastic-cloud-storage

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-319 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Dell ECS, versions 3.8.1.0 through 3.8.1.7, and Dell ObjectScale versions prior to 4.2.0.0, contains a Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to information exposure.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-22271 is classified as CWE-319: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. Sensitive data crosses the network without encryption and can be read or altered in transit.

Affected software

CVE-2026-22271 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • elastic-cloud-storage (from 3.8.1.0 up to 4.2.0.0)
  • objectscale (fixed in 4.2.0.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 23 January 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.dell.com

Other advisories for this package

elastic-cloud-storage has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-319: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-319
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-01-23
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
elastic-cloud-storage 3.8.1.0 4.2.0.0
objectscale — 4.2.0.0

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