CVE-2020-5317
Dell EMC ECS versions prior to 3.4.0.1 contain an XSS vulnerability. A remote authenticated...
Dell EMC ECS versions prior to 3.4.0.1 contain an XSS vulnerability. A remote authenticated malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to store malicious HTML or JavaScript code in a trusted application data store. When victim users access the data store through their browsers, the malicious code gets executed by the web browser in the context of the vulnerable web application.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Dell EMC ECS versions prior to 3.4.0.1 contain an XSS vulnerability. A remote authenticated malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to store malicious HTML or JavaScript code in a trusted application data store. When victim users access the data store through their browsers, the malicious code gets executed by the web browser in the context of the vulnerable web application.
- Record
CVE-2020-5317- CVSS 3.0
- 6.2 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-26499
Dell EMC ECS versions prior to 3.4.0.1 contain an XSS vulnerability. A remote authenticated malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to store malicious HTML or JavaScript code in a trusted application data store. When victim users access the data store through their browsers, the malicious code gets executed by the web browser in the context of the vulnerable web application.
- Record
EUVD-2020-26499- CVSS 3.0
- 6.2 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-j43r-pqf8-cg43 No score
Dell EMC ECS versions prior to 3.4.0.1 contain an XSS vulnerability. A remote authenticated...
Dell EMC ECS versions prior to 3.4.0.1 contain an XSS vulnerability. A remote authenticated malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to store malicious HTML or JavaScript code in a trusted application data store. When victim users access the data store through their browsers, the malicious code gets executed by the web browser in the context of the vulnerable web application.
- Record
GHSA-j43r-pqf8-cg43- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
Dell EMC ECS versions prior to 3.4.0.1 contain an XSS vulnerability. A remote authenticated malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to store malicious HTML or JavaScript code in a trusted application data store. When victim users access the data store through their browsers, the malicious code gets executed by the web browser in the context of the vulnerable web application.
- Record
CVE-2020-5317- CVSS 3.1
- 4.8 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - CVSS 3.0
- 6.2 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 3.5 Low
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, published | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2020-5317 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.2) in Dell Elastic Cloud Storage, published February 6, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.62%, the 50th percentile. No source names a fixed version.