Dell Display Manager <2.3.2.20 Local Race Condition Deletes Files/Folders
CVE-2025-21101 Published on January 15, 2025

Dell Display Manager, versions prior to 2.3.2.20, contain a race condition vulnerability. A local malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability during installation, leading to arbitrary folder or file deletion.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-21101 can be exploited 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 have no impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity and availability.

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

Weakness Type

What is a Race Condition Vulnerability?

The program contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.

CVE-2025-21101 has been classified to as a Race Condition vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2025-21101

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Affected Versions

Dell Display Manager:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.04%
Percentile
11.03%

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.