CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-5316
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-07-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-427
Description
Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3 and Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs version 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.4 contain an uncontrolled search path vulnerability. A locally authenticated low privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to cause the loading of arbitrary DLLs by the SupportAssist binaries, resulting in the privileged execution of arbitrary code.
Affected configurations
• dell supportassist for business pcs 2.0
• dell supportassist for business pcs 2.0.1
• dell supportassist for business pcs 2.0.2
• dell supportassist for business pcs 2.1
• dell supportassist for business pcs 2.1.1
• dell supportassist for business pcs 2.1.2
• dell supportassist for business pcs 2.1.3
• dell supportassist for home pcs 2.0
• dell supportassist for home pcs 2.0.1
• dell supportassist for home pcs 2.0.2
• dell supportassist for home pcs 2.1
• dell supportassist for home pcs 2.1.1
• dell supportassist for home pcs 2.1.2
• dell supportassist for home pcs 2.1.3
• dell supportassist for home pcs 2.2
• dell supportassist for home pcs 2.2.1
• dell supportassist for home pcs 2.2.2
• dell supportassist for home pcs 2.2.3
• dell supportassist for home pcs 3.0
• dell supportassist for home pcs 3.0.1
• dell supportassist for home pcs 3.0.2
• dell supportassist for home pcs 3.1
• dell supportassist for home pcs 3.2
• dell supportassist for home pcs 3.2.1
• dell supportassist for home pcs 3.2.2
• dell supportassist for home pcs 3.3
• dell supportassist for home pcs 3.3.1
• dell supportassist for home pcs 3.3.2
• dell supportassist for home pcs 3.3.3
• dell supportassist for home pcs 3.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
References
- http://www.dell.com/support/article/SLN320101 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.dell.com/support/article/SLN320101 Patch, Vendor Advisory