CVE-2026-26947 is an improper privilege management vulnerability in Dell Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) versions 3.8.1.0 through 3.8.1.7 and Dell ObjectScale versions earlier than 4.4.0.0. A local attacker who already holds high privileges can exploit the flaw to elevate privileges further, with consequences for confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
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What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.
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No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.
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Improper privilege-management vulnerability affecting specified Dell ECS and ObjectScale releases; a high-privileged local attacker may further elevate privileges.
Improper privilege-management vulnerability (CVSS 6.7) enabling a high-privileged local attacker to elevate privileges further on affected Dell ECS and ObjectScale deployments.
Query your assets running an affected version, and investigate the blast radius.
Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.