CVE-2022-32552
Pure Storage FlashArray products running Purity//FA 6.2.0 - 6.2.3, 6.1.0 - 6.1.12, 6.0.0 - 6.0.8, 5.3.0 - 5.3.17, 5.2.x and prior Purity//FA releases, and Pure Storage FlashBlade products running Purity//FB 3.3.0, 3.2.0 - 3.2.4, 3.1.0 - 3.1.12, 3.0.x and prior Purity//FB releases are vulnerable to a privilege escalation via the manipulation of Python environment variables which can be exploited by a logged-in user to escape a restricted shell to an unrestricted shell with root privileges. No other Pure Storage products or services are affected. Remediation is available from Pure Storage via a self-serve “opt-in” patch, manual patch application or a software upgrade to an unaffected version of Purity software.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 8.8 (v3.1)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- EPSS score
- 1.2% (66th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-35619)
- Published
- June 23, 2022
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-35619 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 3, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- purestorage / purity//fa
- purestorage / purity//fb
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- FlashArray//X running Purity//FA 5.3 - Pure Storage, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-11076-2021 - archived
References
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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