Dell SupportAssist Home PC <3.11.4 Priv Escalation
CVE-2022-34387 Published on February 11, 2023

Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs (version 3.11.4 and prior) and SupportAssist for Business PCs (version 3.2.0 and prior) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges and gain total control of the system.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2022-34387 can be exploited with local system access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
HIGH
Privileges Required:
HIGH
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

Insecure Temporary File

Creating and using insecure temporary files can leave application and system data vulnerable to attack.


Products Associated with CVE-2022-34387

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Affected Versions

Dell SupportAssist:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.04%
Percentile
13.44%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.