PT-2023-30890 · Dell · Dell Supportassist

Published 2023-12-22 · Updated 2024-01-02 · CVE-2023-48670

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs versions 3.14.1 and prior

Description A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the installer of Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs, allowing a local low-privileged authenticated attacker to potentially exploit this issue and execute arbitrary executables on the operating system with elevated privileges.

Recommendations For versions 3.14.1 and prior, update to a version that contains a fix for this privilege escalation vulnerability. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Untrusted Search Path

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-426

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-48670

Affected Products

Dell Supportassist

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-48670 · Security Note
• https://dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000220677/dsa-2023-468-security-update-for-dell-supportassist-for-home-pcs-installer-file-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-48670 · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/vuldb/status/1738293213210026244 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/cracbot/status/1738624117761347664 · Twitter Post