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Could be used in binary planting attacks
As explained by Dell in its advisory, "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."
This uncontrolled search path vulnerability reported by Cyberark's
Eran Shimony is tracked as
CVE-2020-5316, comes with a high severity CVSSv3 base score of 7.8, and it affects the following Dell SupportAssist versions:
• Dell SupportAssist for business PCs version 2.1.3 or earlier
• Dell SupportAssist for home PCs version 3.4 or earlier.
The company released Dell SupportAssist version 2.1.4 for business PCs and Dell SupportAssist version 3.4.1 for home PCs with fixes for the vulnerability.
Dell advises all customers to update the Dell SupportAssist software on their computers 'at the earliest opportunity,' seeing that all unpatched versions are vulnerable to attacks. If exploited, this vulnerability allows attackers to load and execute malicious payloads within the context of SupportAssist's binaries on unpatched machines.
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