CVE-2022-32554
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 possibly exposed credentials for accessing the product’s management interface. The password may be known outside Pure Storage and could be used on an affected system, if reachable, to execute arbitrary instructions 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
- 9.8 (v3.1)
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- EPSS score
- 1.3% (70th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-35621)
- 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-2022-35621 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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