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Oct 12, 2026
Rory MonaghanHOST
A dedicated cyber hotline has been set up for potentially affected individuals, and help and guidance are also available online at sikkerdigital.dk. Dell has warned customers to batch a critical vulnerability in the system update command line interface deployment tool as soon as possible, according to bleepthecomputer.com.
Rory MonaghanHOST
The DSU, as it's known, lets enterprise IT administrators deploy BIOS firmware and software updates onto Linux and Windows systems on PowerEdge enterprise server infrastructure.
Rory MonaghanHOST
And in a recent security advisory, Dell said the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-86360, allows threat actors to execute code with root privileges on unpatched devices by exploiting a path traversal weakness.
Rory MonaghanHOST
The FBI and U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, who I often refer to as CISA, have urged software companies since May 2024 to remove past traversal weaknesses from their products before shipping, saying such security issues have been called unforgivable since at least 2007.
Brett Van SpruenbergPANELIST
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Brett Van SpruenbergPANELIST
System Update, that lets, uh, IT admins deploy new firmware, BIOS, software updates onto both Linux and Windows systems on the PowerEdge and the like enterprise, uh, server infrastructure.
Jeremy HellstromPANELIST
Yeah.
Brett Van SpruenbergPANELIST
Uh, that's this kind of thing.
Dave BittnerHOST
Organizations running older versions are urged to update or migrate to supported alternatives.
Dave BittnerHOST
Dell is urging customers to patch a critical vulnerability in its System Update tool that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on affected PowerEdge servers.
Dave BittnerHOST
The vulnerability, rated nine point six, is a path traversal flaw affecting multiple DSU versions.
Dave BittnerHOST
Dell also patched four additional vulnerabilities that could enable privilege escalation or code execution.
speaker_0HOST
A missed patch at a trusted contractor turned into a serious exposure of people whose identities are supposed to stay hidden.
speaker_0HOST
Dell is urging customers to patch a critical flaw in its system update tool that can hand attackers root access to unpatched PowerEdge servers.
speaker_0HOST
The path traversal bug lets an attacker run code with the highest privileges on the machine.
speaker_0HOST
Since the tool pushes BIOS and firmware across enterprise fleets, one unpatched server can mean full control.
James AzarHOST
The company is urging customers to patch a critical flaw in its Dell system update.
James AzarHOST
The DSU command line tool admin used to push BIOS firmware and even software updates to Linux and Windows systems on PowerEdge servers with CVE-2026-86360 being a path traversal bug that lets an unauthenticated remote attacker could use to gain file system access and execute arbitrary code with root privileges, meaning complete compromise of the application and the underlying operating system.
James AzarHOST
They'll also fixed four high-severity DSU flaws.
James AzarHOST
Those are CVEs 2026-63697 and 71168.
Jerry BellHOST
Replace the edge devices that no longer get updates.
Jerry BellHOST
Five, Dell System Update is the tool admins use to push firmware and drivers to PowerEdge servers.
Jerry BellHOST
Dell says a flaw in it lets an attacker with no login run code as root.
Jerry BellHOST
The fix has been out since last Thursday, so update Dell System Update on your PowerEdge servers.
Jerry BellHOST
This time, the patching tool is what needs patching.
Jerry BellHOST
Six, attackers have put backdoors on mail security gateways in South Korea and Taiwan.
Sabina AnyaGUEST
From a memory and storage perspective, I alluded to NVMe tiering previously, which basically extends that usable memory using FOSS NVMe as an additional tier and as a FOSS tier as well.
Sabina AnyaGUEST
And then on the systems and OEM, which I'm assuming kind of where this question was actually going, We certify VCF with Dell PowerEdge.
Sabina AnyaGUEST
We get VCF AI notes, sorry, AI-ready notes from Cisco, Lenovo, Supermicro, and a few others.
Sabina AnyaGUEST
And we've announced a new Metalsoft partnership for, sorry, with vendor agnostic Redfish and BMC interfaces that allow us to provision and repave heterogeneous hardware from kind of all the vendors that I've mentioned before.
Sabina AnyaGUEST
From a memory and storage perspective, I alluded to NVMe tiering previously, which basically extends that usable memory using FOSS NVMe as an additional tier and as a FOSS tier as well.
Sabina AnyaGUEST
And then on the systems and OEM, which I'm assuming kind of where this question was actually going, We certify VCF with Dell PowerEdge.
Sabina AnyaGUEST
We get VCF AI notes, sorry, AI-ready notes from Cisco, Lenovo, Supermicro, and a few others.
Sabina AnyaGUEST
And we've announced a new Metalsoft partnership for, sorry, with vendor agnostic Redfish and BMC interfaces that allow us to provision and repave heterogeneous hardware from kind of all the vendors that I've mentioned before.
Sabina AnyaGUEST
From a memory and storage perspective, I alluded to NVMe tiering previously, which basically extends that usable memory using FOSS NVMe as an additional tier and as a FOSS tier as well.
Sabina AnyaGUEST
And then on the systems and OEM, which I'm assuming kind of where this question was actually going, We certify VCF with Dell PowerEdge.
Sabina AnyaGUEST
We get VCF AI notes, sorry, AI-ready notes from Cisco, Lenovo, Supermicro, and a few others.
Sabina AnyaGUEST
And we've announced a new Metalsoft partnership for, sorry, with vendor agnostic Redfish and BMC interfaces that allow us to provision and repave heterogeneous hardware from kind of all the vendors that I've mentioned before.
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