| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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| 8.8 | $5k-$25k | 0.22 |
A vulnerability was found in Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs and SupportAssist for Home PCs (affected version unknown). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-427. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3 and Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs version 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.4 contain an uncontrolled search path vulnerability. 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.
The weakness was released 07/22/2021. It is possible to read the advisory at dell.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-5316 since 01/03/2020. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The successful exploitation requires a single authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/27/2021).
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.8
VulDB Base Score: 8.8
VulDB Temp Score: 8.8
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Class: Privilege escalation
CWE: CWE-427
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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01/03/2020 CVE assigned
07/22/2021 Advisory disclosed
07/22/2021 VulDB entry created
07/27/2021 VulDB last updateVendor: https://www.dell.com/
Advisory: dell.com
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2020-5316 (🔒)
Created: 07/22/2021 21:57
Updated: 07/27/2021 10:08
Changes: (1) source_cve_cna
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