CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5316

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-07-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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