VulnerabilityPublished 10 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-36577: Dell Wyse Management Suite · Cross-site Scripting

Affects Dell Wyse Management SuiteSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.1 Medium : upgrade to 5.2 when convenient.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 11:42 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

6.1Medium

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

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 33% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 5.2

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

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: High
User Interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: None

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

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
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: Required: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to take some action before the vulnerability can be exploited.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: High: There is a total loss of integrity, or a complete loss of protection. For example, the attacker is able to modify any/all files protected by the impacted component. Alternatively, only some files can be modified, but malicious modification would present a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 10 Jun 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 26 Oct 2026.

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 or the CVSS exploit maturity 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 Wyse Management Suite to 5.2.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Dell Wyse Management Suite	Affected <5.2	Fixed in 5.2

AI-suggested

To mitigate this vulnerability, European organizations should prioritize upgrading Dell Wyse Management Suite to version 5.2 or later once available, as this will likely include the necessary security patches. If you cannot patch yet, organizations should restrict access to the management suite to trusted administrative users only, enforce strong authentication mechanisms such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), and limit remote access through VPNs or secure tunnels with strict access controls. Regularly audit and monitor administrative activities and logs for suspicious behavior indicative of attempted exploitation. Implement network segmentation to isolate management consoles from general user networks and the internet, reducing exposure to external attackers. Additionally, conduct user training to recognize and avoid triggering malicious scripts, and consider deploying web application firewalls (WAFs) that can detect and block XSS payloads targeting the management interface. Finally, review and harden input validation and output encoding policies within custom integrations or scripts interacting with the management suite to reduce injection risks.

Description

Dell Wyse Management Suite, versions prior to WMS 5.2, contain an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Script injection.

Impact

For European organizations, the impact of this vulnerability can be significant, especially for those relying on Dell Wyse Management Suite to manage large fleets of thin clients or endpoint devices. Exploitation could allow attackers to execute arbitrary scripts in the context of the management console, potentially leading to theft of administrative credentials, unauthorized configuration changes, or lateral movement within the network. This could compromise sensitive corporate data, disrupt endpoint management, and increase the risk of further attacks such as ransomware or espionage. Organizations in sectors with stringent data protection requirements, such as finance, healthcare, and government, may face regulatory and reputational damage if this vulnerability is exploited. The requirement for high privileges and user interaction somewhat limits the attack surface but does not eliminate risk, particularly in environments where administrative access is shared or poorly controlled. Additionally, remote access capabilities increase exposure, especially if remote management interfaces are accessible over the internet or poorly segmented networks.

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #1OWASP Top 10 A05:2025: Injection (opens in a new tab)
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Implementation · Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide…
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Injection Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.3.3 (opens in a new tab)
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch (opens in a new tab)
DOM-Based XSS (opens in a new tab)
Reflected XSS (opens in a new tab)
Stored XSS (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000325679/dsa-2025-226 (opens in a new tab)

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 10 Jul 2025, 19:49 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-79

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