importantSYS.SOURCE: The Hacker News• 2026-10-02T22:32:12+05:30
Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) Vulnerabilities Permit Unauthenticated Admin Access and Root Privileges on Kubernetes Clusters
Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) contain critical vulnerabilities enabling unauthenticated administrative access and root-level privilege escalation on Kubernetes clusters. Dell has released version 1.18.0 to address these issues affecting all prior versions.
Dell has released security updates to address multiple critical security flaws in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) that could be exploited by bad actors to take over susceptible systems.
The vulnerabilities are listed below -
CVE-2026-63688 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A missing authentication for critical function vulnerability in the csm-authorization-storage gRPC server that an
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