CVE-2025-43995: Dell Storage Manager

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dell Storage Center - Dell Storage Manager, version(s) 20.1.21, contain(s) an Improper Authentication vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Protection mechanism bypass. Authentication Bypass in DSM Data Collector. An unauthenticated remote attacker can access APIs exposed by ApiProxy.war in DataCollectorEar.ear by using a special SessionKey and UserId. These userid are special users created in compellentservicesapi for special purposes.

Affected products

• Dell Storage Manager: before 2020 (fixed in 2020); version 2020 only

Published 2025-10-24. Last modified 2026-10-08.