CVE-2026-79939

HIGHNVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This high-severity CVE scores 7.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.2% (6th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 5.8 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2026-08-26) is not newer than that change (2026-09-01), so it does not.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-66706 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

The CVE record's CNA (Dell) lists Dell Power Protect Cyber Recovery versions before 20.3.0.0; Dell Cyber Recovery versions before osupdate-15.4.0-19.bin and before osupdate-15.6.1-1.bin as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery, versions Prior to 20.3, contain an UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Script injection.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
6th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-27). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 26, 2026

Last Modified

September 1, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 26, 2026
No fix on record yet.
Web page

DSA-2026-370: Security Update for Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery Multiple Third-Party Component Vulnerabilities | Dell US

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000501456/dsa-2026-370-security-update-for-dell-powerprotect-cyber-recovery-multiple-third-party-component-vulnerabilities

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-79939(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 65× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 193 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 93 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-30 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  4. 2026-10-28 15:32 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-28 15:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
  6. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  14. 2026-10-20 18:52 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-20 18:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
  16. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  25. 2026-10-13 06:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
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  1. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-10 06:04 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-10 06:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
  10. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  12. 2026-10-09 03:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
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  15. 2026-10-08 01:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
  16. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  17. 2026-10-07 07:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
  18. 2026-10-06 19:19 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-06 19:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
  20. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  21. 2026-10-06 07:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
  22. 2026-10-05 19:27 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-05 19:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
  24. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  26. 2026-10-05 07:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
  27. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  28. 2026-10-04 19:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
  29. 2026-10-04 07:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
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  31. 2026-10-03 19:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
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  33. 2026-10-03 07:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
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  37. 2026-10-02 07:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
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  45. 2026-09-30 06:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
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  48. 2026-09-29 12:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
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  56. 2026-09-27 08:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
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  65. 2026-09-24 07:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-32xm-hgp4-xgc5 · GitHub CVSS 5.8
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-79939?
CVE-2026-79939 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 26, 2026. Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery, versions Prior to 20.3, contain an UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Script injection.
When was CVE-2026-79939 made public?
CVE-2026-79939 was made public on August 24, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Dell, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 26, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 1, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-79939 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-79939 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (6th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-79939?
CVE-2026-79939 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-79939?
No fix for CVE-2026-79939 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The CVE record's CNA (Dell) lists Dell Power Protect Cyber Recovery versions before 20.3.0.0; Dell Cyber Recovery versions before osupdate-15.4.0-19.bin and before osupdate-15.6.1-1.bin as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-79939 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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