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🛡️ CVE-2026-22769 — recoverpoint-for-virtual-machines

🔴 CVSS 10.0 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-798 NVD
10.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, versions prior to 6.0.3.1 HF1, contain a hardcoded credential vulnerability. This is considered critical as an unauthenticated remote attacker with knowledge of the hardcoded credential could potentially exploit this vulnerability leading to unauthorized access to the underlying operating system and root-level persistence. Dell recommends that customers upgrade or apply one of the remediations as soon as possible.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • 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-2026-22769 is classified as CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials. Credentials are built into the product, so they are identical on every installation and cannot be rotated.

Affected software

CVE-2026-22769 is recorded against 1 package.

  • recoverpoint-for-virtual-machines

Timeline and source

Published on 17 February 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.dell.com
cloud.google.com
www.cisa.gov

Other advisories for this package

recoverpoint-for-virtual-machines 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-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 10.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-798
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-02-17
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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