CVE-2021-21545 is a vulnerability in Dell Peripheral Manager
Published on April 12, 2021
Dell Peripheral Manager 1.3.1 or greater contains remediation for a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could be potentially exploited to gain arbitrary code execution on the system with privileges of the system user.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2021-21545 can be exploited with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a DLL preloading Vulnerability?
The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors.
CVE-2021-21545 has been classified to as a DLL preloading vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2021-21545
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Affected Versions
Dell Peripheral Manager:- Version unspecified and below 1.3.1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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