CVE-2019-3742

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Dell
Status
Dell Digital Delivery
Alienware Digital Delivery
Vendor
CVE Published:
9 August 2019

Summary

Dell/Alienware Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.2013 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A local non-privileged malicious user could exploit a named pipe that performs binary deserialization via a process hollowing technique to inject malicous code to run an executable with elevated privileges.

Affected Version(s)

Alienware Digital Delivery prior to 3.5.2013

Dell Digital Delivery prior to 3.5.2013

References

https://www.dell.com/support/article/SLN318085
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Dell would like to thank Alexander Bolshev, Security Consultant, IOActive and Enrique Nissim, Senior Security Consultant, IOActive for reporting these vulnerabilities.
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