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CVE-2026-91881

9 CRITICAL

Published 2026-10-14 · Updated 2026-10-15

AI risk analysis

Summary
Dell Terraform Provider for Redfish has a critical vulnerability where TLS certificate validation is completely disabled in its HTTP transport, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks and intercept all Redfish BMC traffic including sensitive credentials.
Exploitability
Very easy to exploit with no preconditions required since the vulnerability affects unauthenticated remote access and the TLS verification is unconditionally disabled.
Blast radius
The vulnerability could impact all Dell servers using Redfish BMC management, potentially exposing hundreds or thousands of systems to credential theft and unauthorized access during network communication.
Detection
No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
Prioritized remediation
Upgrade to version 1.6.2 or later
mitmcertificate-validationredfishbmc

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NVD description

Dell Terraform Provider for Redfish, versions prior to 1.6.2, contains an Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in the HTTP transport component. An unauthenticated attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to information exposure and unauthorized access. This is a Critical severity vulnerability as it allows an unauthenticated attacker to intercept all Redfish BMC traffic including credentials by performing a man-in-the-middle attack, since TLS certificate verification is unconditionally disabled in the base HTTP transport. Dell recommends customers to upgrade at the earliest opportunity.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-295

All references

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