CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-34384

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Published: Feb 11, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Dell SupportAssist Client Consumer (version 3.11.1 and prior), SupportAssist Client Commercial (version 3.2 and prior), Dell Command | Update, Dell Update, and Alienware Update versions before 4.5 contain a Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the Advanced Driver Restore component. A local malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to privilege escalation.

Weakness

The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Alienware_update Dell * 4.5.0 (excluding)
Command_update Dell * 4.5.0 (excluding)
Supportassist_for_business_pcs Dell * 3.2.0 (including)
Supportassist_for_home_pcs Dell * 3.11.2 (including)
Update Dell * 4.5.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References