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Article Number: 000220677

DSA-2023-468: Security Update for Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs Installer file Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Summary: Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs Local remediation is available for SupportAssist Installer file that malicious users could exploit to compromise the affected system.

Article Content

Impact

High

Additional Details

This vulnerability only affects first time installation done before 21 December 2023.

Details

Proprietary Code CVEs Description CVSS Base Score CVSS Vector String
CVE-2023-48670 Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs version 3.14.1 and prior versions contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in the installer. A local low privileged authenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the execution of arbitrary executable on the operating system with elevated privileges. 7.3


 		 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HThis hyperlink is taking you to a website outside of Dell Technologies.
 
Proprietary Code CVEs Description CVSS Base Score CVSS Vector String
CVE-2023-48670 Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs version 3.14.1 and prior versions contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in the installer. A local low privileged authenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the execution of arbitrary executable on the operating system with elevated privileges. 7.3


 		 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HThis hyperlink is taking you to a website outside of Dell Technologies.
 
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 Software/Firmware Affected Versions Remediated Versions Link
SupportAssist for Home PCs SupportAssist Installer 3.14.2.45116 3.14.2.49747 SupportAssist for Home PCsThis hyperlink is taking you to a website outside of Dell Technologies.
Product Software/Firmware Affected Versions Remediated Versions Link
SupportAssist for Home PCs SupportAssist Installer 3.14.2.45116 3.14.2.49747 SupportAssist for Home PCsThis hyperlink is taking you to a website outside of Dell Technologies.
If customers have a previous version of SupportAssistinstaller.exe before 3.14.2.45116 then they should delete the old installer from the download location.

SupportAssistInstaller.exe is a standalone executable that is used only during the first-time installation of Dell SupportAssist Client Consumer for Home PCs from Dell portals.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

Acknowledgements

Dell would like to thank Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun) for reporting this issue.

Revision History

RevisionDateDescription
1.02023-12-21Initial Release

Related Information

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

Legal Information

Article Properties

Affected Product

SupportAssist for Home PCs

Last Published Date

22 Dec 2023

Version

1

Article Type

Dell Security Advisory

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