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Dell Client Consumer and Commercial Platforms contain an...

Low severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Dell Client Consumer and Commercial Platforms contain an Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability. The vulnerability is limited to the Dell Firmware Update Utility 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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 21, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

0.044%
(13th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-5324

GHSA ID

GHSA-h3cp-w4mh-hq4h

Source code

No known source code

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