Dell SupportAssist Home PC v3.14.1 Privilege Escalation via Installer
CVE-2023-48670 Published on December 22, 2023

Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs version 3.14.1 and prior versions contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in the installer. A local low privileged authenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the execution of arbitrary executable on the operating system with elevated privileges.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2023-48670 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction and a 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.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
REQUIRED
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is an Untrusted Path Vulnerability?

The application searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the application's direct control.

CVE-2023-48670 has been classified to as an Untrusted Path vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2023-48670

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Affected Versions

Dell SupportAssist Client Consumer Version 3.14.2.45116 is affected by CVE-2023-48670

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.04%
Percentile
11.86%

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.