High severity8.6NVD Advisory· Published Nov 22, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-43082

Description

Dell Unity prior to 5.3 contains a 'man in the middle' vulnerability in the vmadapter component. If a customer has a certificate signed by a third-party public Certificate Authority, the vCenter CA could be spoofed by an attacker who can obtain a CA-signed certificate.

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Affected products

Dell/Unity Operating Environment
cpe:2.3:a:dell:unity_operating_environment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <5.3.0.0.5.120
Dell/Unity Xt Operating Environment
cpe:2.3:a:dell:unity_xt_operating_environment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <5.3.0.0.5.120
Dell/Unityvsa Operating Environment
cpe:2.3:a:dell:unityvsa_operating_environment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <5.3.0.0.5.120
Dell/Unityllm-fuzzy
Range: <5.3
Dell/UnityXTcpe-rescue
Range: Versions prior to 5.3.0.0.5.120

Patches

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References

www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000213152/dsa-2023-141-dell-unity-unity-vsa-and-unity-xt-security-update-for-multiple-vulnerabilitiesnvdVendor Advisory

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