{"id":78351,"date":"2026-05-12T17:47:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-40638-dell-powerscale-insightiq-execution-of-code-with-unnecessary-privileges\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:17:04","slug":"cve-2026-40638-dell-powerscale-insightiq-execution-of-code-with-unnecessary-privileges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-40638-dell-powerscale-insightiq-execution-of-code-with-unnecessary-privileges\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-40638 &#8211; Dell PowerScale InsightIQ Execution of Code with Unnecessary Privileges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-40638<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 12, 2026, 2:17 p.m. | 41\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Dell PowerScale InsightIQ, versions 5.0.0 through 6.2.0, contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to elevation of privileges.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 6.7 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-40638 Published : May 12, 2026, 2:17 p.m. | 41\u00a0minutes ago Description :Dell PowerScale InsightIQ, versions 5.0.0 through 6.2.0, contains an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to elevation of privileges. Severity: 6.7 | MEDIUM Visit the link for more details, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}