# CVE-2026-103813: Dell PowerStore 500T root privilege escalation via OS command injection

- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Exposure: Specific setups only
- Attention: Reference. No open trigger. (last checked 2026-11-13)
- Fix: none listed; see the vendor advisory
- Published: 2026-11-13 · Updated: 2026-11-13

CVE-2026-103813 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 9.1 (critical) and affects PowerStore 500T, PowerStore 1000T, PowerStore 1200T and 12 more; no fixed version is listed; see the vendor advisory.

## Summary

Dell PowerStore 500T, 1000T, 1200T, 3000T, 3200Q, 3200T, 5000T, and 5200Q contain an OS command injection vulnerability. An attacker who can reach the appliance over the network and is already logged in with high privileges can exploit it to escalate privileges to root on the appliance.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Who should check

Teams running Dell PowerStore T-series appliances (500T to 7000T, including 3200Q and 5200Q models) that have authenticated users with limited privileges.

Source: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000527640/dsa-2026-479-dell-powerstore-t-security-update-for-multiple-vulnerabilities ("Dell PowerStore contains an OS Command Injection vulnerability.")

## Affected

- Dell PowerStore 500T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 1000T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 1200T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 3000T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 3200Q: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 3200T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 5000T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 5200Q: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 5200T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 7000T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 9000T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 9200T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 1500: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 5500: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 9500: version range not reported

## Description

Dell PowerStore contains an OS Command Injection vulnerability. An authenticated user with limited privileges could potentially exploit this vulnerability, potentially leading to privilege escalation to root on the appliance.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Dell PowerStore 500T, Dell PowerStore 1000T, Dell PowerStore 1200T or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, run the stack.check operation (execute) on the cve.now MCP server (https://mcp.cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Check your systems with an agent

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Check whether my systems are affected by CVE-2026-103813 (Dell PowerStore contains an OS Command Injection vulnerability.), using the cve.now data below.

Rules: work read-only. Do not run exploit code, proof-of-concept scripts or scanners that send attack payloads, and do not change any configuration, package, image or deployment. Report findings only.

What cve.now has for CVE-2026-103813 (entry last updated 2026-11-13):
Affected:
- Dell PowerStore 500T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 1000T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 1200T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 3000T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 3200Q: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 3200T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 5000T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 5200Q: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 5200T: version range not reported
- Dell PowerStore 7000T: version range not reported
- and 5 more affected products, listed on https://cve.now/CVE-2026-103813
Fixed versions: none listed yet.
Setup: unknown whether the bug needs a non-default feature or setting. Check the advisory.
Attacker needs: network access, high-privilege login, no user action.
CISA KEV: CVE-2026-103813 is not listed as of cve.now's last read.
This KEV status is for CVE-2026-103813 only. If you also check another CVE, look up its own KEV status; never assume it from this one.

How to check:
- Installed software: check what is actually running, not what a repo declares. Read the version from each host, container image and Kubernetes node (the binary's version output, the OS package database, image layers), and check whether the conditions above hold there. Distribution packages may carry a backported fix under an older version number; confirm against the distribution's own advisory.

Verify against the linked advisories before concluding, and cite the date you read each one:
- https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000527640/dsa-2026-479-dell-powerstore-t-security-update-for-multiple-vulnerabilities
Do not conclude an asset is unaffected unless you checked it and the evidence covers both its version and the conditions above. If you could not check something, mark it unknown and say what is missing.

Report a table with one row per asset and these columns: Asset | Version or build | Status (affected, fixed, not applicable, unknown) | Compensating controls | Exposure (internet-facing, internal, none) | Evidence | Next action.

Entry: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-103813
For follow-up questions, use the cve.now MCP server at https://mcp.cve.now/mcp (no authentication), for example execute with name cve.get and arguments {"id": "CVE-2026-103813"}.
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## References

### Vendor advisory

Establishes: Affected and fixed versions.

- https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000527640/dsa-2026-479-dell-powerstore-t-security-update-for-multiple-vulnerabilities

### CVE record

Establishes: The identifier and description.

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-103813
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-103813

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