CVE-2021-21545

HIGH

Dell Peripheral Manager < 1.3.1 - Local Privilege Escalation via Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Title source: llm

Description

Dell Peripheral Manager 1.3.1 or greater contains remediation for a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could be potentially exploited to gain arbitrary code execution on the system with privileges of the system user.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000185100/dsa-2021-079-dell-client-security-update-for-dell-peripheral-manager-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0004

EPSS Percentile 11.1%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-427

Status published

Products (1)

dell/peripheral_manager < 1.3.1

Published Apr 12, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026