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Article Number: 000185100

DSA-2021-079: Dell Client Security Update for Dell Peripheral Manager Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Summary: Dell Peripheral Manager 1.3.1 or later contains remediation for a local privilege escalation issue vulnerability that may potentially be exploited to gain arbitrary code execution on the system with privileges of the system user. ...

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Impact

High

Details

Proprietary Code CVE Description CVSS Base Score CVSS Vector String
CVE-2021-21545 Dell Peripheral Manager 1.3.1 or later contains remediation for a local privilege escalation vulnerability that may be potentially exploited to gain arbitrary code execution on the system with privileges of the system user. 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Proprietary Code CVE Description CVSS Base Score CVSS Vector String
CVE-2021-21545 Dell Peripheral Manager 1.3.1 or later contains remediation for a local privilege escalation vulnerability that may be potentially exploited to gain arbitrary code execution on the system with privileges of the system user. 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Dell Technologies recommends all customers consider both the CVSS base score and any relevant temporal and environmental scores that may impact the potential severity associated with a particular security vulnerability.

Affected Products and Remediation

Product Affected Versions Updated Version Release Date
(MM/DD/YYYY)		 Link to Update
Dell Peripheral Manager Versions before 1.3.1  1.4.1 06-24-2021 Dell Peripheral Manager
Product Affected Versions Updated Version Release Date
(MM/DD/YYYY)		 Link to Update
Dell Peripheral Manager Versions before 1.3.1  1.4.1 06-24-2021 Dell Peripheral Manager

Acknowledgements

Dell would like to thank Nikolas Sotiriu for reporting this issue.

Related Information

Dell Security Advisories and Notices
Dell Vulnerability Response Policy
CVSS Scoring Guide

Legal Information

Article Properties

Affected Product

Dell Peripheral Manager, Product Security Information

Last Published Date

03 Aug 2022

Version

4

Article Type

Dell Security Advisory

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