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PoC released for privilege escalation in Dell Wyse Management Suite

Nov 10, 2026 · 1 min read

Dell Wyse Management Suite versions prior to 5.5 contain a missing authorization vulnerability (CVE-2026-22765). A low privileged attacker with remote access could exploit it to elevate privileges, and a PoC has been released. Version 5.5 is outside the affected range; upgrade.

By HIFY Radar newsroom Updated 11/10/2026 10:40 AM Get this every day →← Back to the feed 1 source

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Observed

Public exploit code has appeared for a Dell security flaw. A GitHub repository named cve-2026-22765-poc, run by user xitro01, offers a proof of concept targeting Dell Wyse Management Suite, and a vulnerability tracking account flagged the find on X.

Alleged

The bug is tracked as CVE-2026-22765, with tracker ID PT-2026-21793. According to the advisory text circulating with the report, versions before WMS 5.5 miss an authorization check, meaning the server fails to verify whether a user is allowed to do something. A low privileged attacker who already has remote access could potentially use that gap to elevate privileges.

Inferred

The practical takeaway: the affected range stops below 5.5, so moving to WMS 5.5 or later looks like the fix.

What happened

Observed

The vulnerability entered this feed through the dbu.gs tracker as entry PT-2026-21793, which cross references CVE-2026-22765 against Dell Wyse Management Suite.

Observed

Alongside it, the account @ptdbugs posted on X that a PoC or exploit had been discovered for CVE-2026-22765, quoting the Dell description: versions prior to WMS 5.5 contain a missing authorization vulnerability, and a low privileged attacker with remote access could potentially exploit it, leading to elevation of privileges.

Observed

The proof of concept itself sits in a public GitHub repository under the username xitro01. Its existence is confirmed in this batch; whether the code actually works has not been verified here.

Why it matters

Inferred

Wyse Management Suite is Dell's central console for managing thin clients and endpoints. Privilege escalation there matters because the attacker starts small, with a low privilege account, and could end up with far more control over a system that itself manages other machines. The advisory describes that climb as possible, which is why this class of bug draws attention once exploit code shows up.

Inferred

Missing authorization flaws are also cheap to weaponize. There is no memory corruption to pull off, just a request the server should have refused. With a public PoC lowering the technical bar, unpatched installations become the soft target.

What to do

Inferred

If your team runs Wyse Management Suite, find out the version today. The affected range described in the advisory is everything before WMS 5.5, so anything older should be scheduled for upgrade.

Inferred

Until the upgrade lands, tighten who has remote access and audit low privileged accounts. The attack path described requires the attacker to already hold remote access with limited rights, so shrinking that surface reduces exposure.

Inferred

If you need to assess real exposure, pull the PoC repository into an isolated lab and test it against your own build rather than assuming it works or fails.

Confirmed and still uncertain

Observed

What we can see in the evidence: a tracker entry, a public PoC repository, and a post quoting the Dell description of the flaw naming Wyse Management Suite versions prior to 5.5 with a missing authorization weakness.

Inferred

What we cannot yet say: whether the PoC actually elevates privileges as claimed, whether anyone has used it against real targets, the severity score, the exact endpoint or component missing the check, and what Dell's full advisory recommends beyond the version cutoff. None of that appears in this batch.

What people are saying

Observed

The main public voice is @ptdbugs, which wrote that a PoC or exploit has been discovered for CVE-2026-22765 and pointed followers to the dbu.gs entry for details.

Observed

The PoC author, GitHub user xitro01, has let the repository speak for itself. No accompanying statement from the author appears in this evidence batch.

Evolution

Observed

All three items in this batch carry the same capture timestamp, so the record shows the advisory text, the tracker entry, and the PoC repository arriving together in this feed rather than in a documented sequence.

Inferred

The likely arc, inferred rather than documented: Dell described the flaw, the tracker indexed it, and a third party built and published the proof of concept. The ordering is plausible but not proven by the captured items.

Reach

Observed

2 independent groups, 1 updates, and 0 engagements.

Technical detail

Alleged

By the classification in the report, this is a missing authorization vulnerability, the broken access control class of bug where a server action fails to check the caller's permissions. The affected product is Dell Wyse Management Suite, versions prior to WMS 5.5, and the described impact is elevation of privileges by a low privileged attacker with remote access.

Observed

Identifiers to watch: CVE-2026-22765, tracker ID PT-2026-21793, and the PoC repository github.com/xitro01/cve-2026-22765-poc. Those are the concrete handles for searching advisory updates and detection reports.

Sources and evidence

Observed

This report rests on three items: the dbu.gs tracker entry PT-2026-21793, the GitHub PoC repository from user xitro01, and an X post from @ptdbugs carrying the vulnerability description. The two RSS items arrived without body text, so the descriptive details, including the version range and the attack description, come from the text of that single post. Treat the specifics accordingly.