CVE-2020-5317

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

Dell Elastic Cloud Storage: before 3.4.0.1 — fixed in 3.4.0.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Dell Elastic Cloud Storage 3.4.0.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://www.dell.com/support/security/en-us/details/540788/DSA-2020-016-Dell-EMC-ECS-Cross-Site-Scripting-XSS-Vulnerability
https://www.dell.com/support/security/en-us/details/540788/DSA-2020-016-Dell-EMC-ECS-Cross-Site-Scripting-XSS-Vulnerability

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