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.
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This vulnerability only affects first time installation done before 21 December 2023.
Details
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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.
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.
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.
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 & Mitigations
None
Revision History
Revision
Date
Description
1.0
2023-12-21
Initial Release
Acknowledgements
Dell would like to thank Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun) for reporting this issue.