CVE-2020-5357

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
May 28, 2020
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Jan 3, 2020

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Description

Dell Dock Firmware Update Utilities for Dell Client Consumer and Commercial docking stations contain an Arbitrary File Overwrite vulnerability. The vulnerability is limited to the Dell Dock Firmware Update Utilities during the time window while being executed by an administrator. During this time window, a locally authenticated low-privileged malicious user could exploit this vulnerability by tricking an administrator into overwriting arbitrary files via a symlink attack. The vulnerability does not affect the actual binary payload that the update utility delivers.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Hdell

Weaknesses

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

ProductVersions
CPG BIOSDell
  • before 1.0.8Affected

References

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