PT-2020-18401
CVE-2020-5324
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Published
2020-02-21
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Updated
2021-09-14
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.1
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Dell Client Consumer and Commercial Platforms (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue allows a locally authenticated low-privileged malicious user to exploit the Dell Firmware Update Utility by tricking an administrator into overwriting arbitrary files via a symlink attack. This can happen during the time window when the utility is being executed by an administrator. The actual binary payload delivered by the update utility is not affected.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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