CVE-2025-21110VulnerabilityPublished 14 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-21110: Dell Data Lakehouse · Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Affects Dell Data LakehouseSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.7 Medium : upgrade to 1.5.0.0 when convenient.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

6.7Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 3% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 1.5.0.0

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H

Attack Vector: Local
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: High
User Interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: Low
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Local: The vulnerable component is not bound to the network stack and the attacker’s path is via read/write/execute capabilities. Either: the attacker exploits the vulnerability by accessing the target system locally (e.g., keyboard, console), or remotely (e.g., SSH); or the attacker relies on User Interaction by another person to perform actions required to exploit the vulnerability (e.g., tricking a legitimate user into opening a malicious document).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: High: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide significant (e.g., administrative) control over the vulnerable component that could affect component-wide settings and files.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Changed: An exploited vulnerability can affect resources beyond the security scope managed by the security authority of the vulnerable component. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are different and managed by different security authorities.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 14 Aug 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade Dell Data Lakehouse to 1.5.0.0.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Dell Data Lakehouse	Affected <1.5.0.0	Fixed in 1.5.0.0

AI-suggested

To mitigate this vulnerability, European organizations should: 1) Restrict local high-privileged access strictly to trusted administrators and enforce strong access controls and monitoring to detect unauthorized privilege escalations. 2) Implement robust auditing and logging of privileged operations within Dell Data Lakehouse environments to identify suspicious activities early. 3) Apply the principle of least privilege rigorously, ensuring that services and users operate with the minimum necessary permissions. 5) Consider isolating the Data Lakehouse environment within segmented network zones to limit the impact of potential local exploits. 6) Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and penetration testing focusing on privilege escalation vectors within the local environment. 7) Educate system administrators on the risks of unnecessary privilege execution and encourage adherence to security best practices. These steps go beyond generic advice by focusing on access control, monitoring, and environment segmentation tailored to the nature of this vulnerability.

Description

Dell Data Lakehouse, versions prior to 1.5.0.0, contains an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Denial of service.

Impact

For European organizations using Dell Data Lakehouse, this vulnerability poses a risk primarily to service availability. Since the vulnerability requires local high-privileged access, the threat is more relevant in environments where multiple users or administrators have elevated privileges or where attackers could escalate privileges locally. A successful exploitation could lead to denial of service, disrupting critical data analytics and storage operations, which can impact business continuity, decision-making, and compliance with data handling regulations such as GDPR. The integrity impact is low, so data tampering risk is minimal, but the availability impact could affect operational workflows and service-level agreements. Organizations in sectors relying heavily on data analytics, such as finance, manufacturing, and telecommunications, could face operational disruptions. Additionally, the scope change in the CVSS vector suggests that exploitation could affect components beyond the initially compromised process, potentially amplifying the impact. Given the medium severity and lack of known exploits, the immediate risk is moderate but should not be underestimated in environments with sensitive or critical data processing.

CWE-250Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: Medium
The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.
Architecture and Design · Operation · Environment Hardening
Run your code using the lowest privileges that are required to accomplish the necessary tasks. If possible, create isolated accounts with limited privileges that are only used for a single task. That way, a successful attack will not immediately give the attacker access to the rest of the software or its environment.
Architecture and Design · Separation of Privilege
Identify the functionality that requires additional privileges, such as access to privileged operating system resources. Wrap and centralize this functionality if possible, and isolate the privileged code as much as possible from other code.
Architecture and Design · Attack Surface Reduction
Identify the functionality that requires additional privileges, such as access to privileged operating system resources. Wrap and centralize this functionality if possible, and isolate the privileged code as much as possible from other code.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Docker Security (opens in a new tab)
Vulnerable Dependency Management (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V1.14.5 (opens in a new tab)
V1.2.1 (opens in a new tab)
V14.2.6 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Cross Zone Scripting (opens in a new tab)
Expanding Control over the Operating System from the Database (opens in a new tab)
Target Programs with Elevated Privileges (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000356822/dsa-2025-313-security-update-for-dell-data-lakehouse-multiple-vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 14 Aug 2025, 18:33 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-250

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