DSA-2025-033: Security Update for Dell Display Manager for Multiple Vulnerabilities

Summary: Dell Display Manager remediation is available for multiple vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

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Impact

Medium

Details

Proprietary Code CVEs

Description

CVSS Base Score

CVSS Vector String

CVE-2025-22394

Dell Display Manager, versions prior to 2.3.2.18, contain a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to code execution and possibly privilege escalation.

6.7

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HThis hyperlink is taking you to a website outside of Dell Technologies.

CVE-2025-21101

Dell Display Manager, versions prior to 2.3.2.20, contain a race condition vulnerability.
A local malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability during installation, leading to arbitrary folder or file deletion.

6.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/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-2025-22394

Dell Display Manager, versions prior to 2.3.2.18, contain a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to code execution and possibly privilege escalation.

6.7

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HThis hyperlink is taking you to a website outside of Dell Technologies.

CVE-2025-21101

Dell Display Manager, versions prior to 2.3.2.20, contain a race condition vulnerability.
A local malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability during installation, leading to arbitrary folder or file deletion.

6.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/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 & Remediation

CVE ID

Product

Software/Firmware

Affected Versions

Remediated Versions

Release Date

Link

CVE-2025-22394, CVE-2025-21101

Dell Display Manager

Software

Versions prior to 2.3.2.20

Versions 2.3.2.20 or later

01/08/2025

Support for Dell Display Manager 2.x | Drivers & Downloads

CVE ID

Product

Software/Firmware

Affected Versions

Remediated Versions

Release Date

Link

CVE-2025-22394, CVE-2025-21101

Dell Display Manager

Software

Versions prior to 2.3.2.20

Versions 2.3.2.20 or later

01/08/2025

Support for Dell Display Manager 2.x | Drivers & Downloads

Workarounds & Mitigations

None

Revision History

Revision

Date

Description

1.0

2025-01-14

Initial Release

Acknowledgements

CVE-2025-21101: Dell Technologies would like to thank Ouallaout Noureddine for reporting this issue.

Related Information

Affected Products

Dell Display Manager 2.x
Article Properties
Article Number: 000267927
Article Type: Dell Security Advisory
Last Modified: 14 Jan 2025
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