Info Disclosure in Dell SupportAssist 3.11.4/3.2.0 via Local Low-Priv User
CVE-2022-34388 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 information disclosure vulnerability. A local malicious user with low privileges could exploit this vulnerability to view and modify sensitive information in the database of the affected application.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-34388 is exploitable 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 have a high impact on confidentiality and integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Executable
The application stores sensitive information in cleartext in an executable. Attackers can reverse engineer binary code to obtain secret data. This is especially easy when the cleartext is plain ASCII. Even if the information is encoded in a way that is not human-readable, certain techniques could determine which encoding is being used, then decode the information.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-34388
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Affected Versions
Dell SupportAssist:- Before and including 3.11.4,3.2.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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