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.
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.
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-2023-48670Exploit Probability
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.