Dell Unity, versions prior to 5.4, contain a vulnerability whereby log messages can be spoofed by an authenticated attacker. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to forge log entries, create false alarms, and inject malicious content into logs that compromise logs integrity. A malicious attacker could also prevent the product from logging information while malicious actions are performed or implicate an arbitrary user for malicious activities.
The product constructs a log message from external input, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements when the message is written to a log file.
The product prepares a structured message for communication with another component, but encoding or escaping of the data is either missing or done incorrectly. As a result, the intended structure of the message is not preserved.