CVE-2024-52535

HIGH

Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs < 4.6.2 and Business PCs < 4.5.1 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack

Title source: llm

Description

Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs versions 4.6.1 and prior and Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs versions 4.5.0 and prior, contain a symbolic link (symlink) attack vulnerability in the software remediation component. A low-privileged authenticated user could potentially exploit this vulnerability, gaining privileges escalation, leading to arbitrary deletion of files and folders from the system.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000261086/dsa-2024-470-security-update-for-dell-supportassist-for-home-pcs-and-dell-supportassist-for-business-pcs-vulnerabilities

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1

EPSS 0.0053

EPSS Percentile 40.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-61 CWE-59

Status published

Products (2)

dell/supportassist_for_business_pcs < 4.5.1

dell/supportassist_for_home_pcs < 4.6.2

Published Dec 25, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026