CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5357

6.0 MEDIUM Published 2020-05-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-05-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

Dell Dock Firmware Update Utilities for Dell Client Consumer and Commercial docking stations contain an Arbitrary File Overwrite vulnerability. The vulnerability is limited to the Dell Dock Firmware Update Utilities during the time window while being executed by an administrator. During this time window, a locally authenticated low-privileged malicious user could exploit this vulnerability by tricking an administrator into overwriting arbitrary files via a symlink attack. The vulnerability does not affect the actual binary payload that the update utility delivers.

Affected configurations

• dell dock wd15 firmware (< 1.0.8) • dell dock wd19 firmware (< 1.0.14) • dell thunderbolt dock tb16 firmware (< 1.0.4) • dell precision dual usb-c thunderbolt dock - tb18dc firmware (< 1.0.10)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References