ASA-2019-00372 – Dell SupportAssist: Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability


Allele Security Alert

ASA-2019-00372

Identifier(s)

ASA-2019-00372, DSA-2019-088, CVE-2019-3735

Title

Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability

Vendor(s)

Dell

Product(s)

Dell SupportAssist for Business
Dell SupportAssist for Home

Affected version(s)

Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs version 2.0
Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs version 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1, 3.2, and 3.2.1

Fixed version(s)

Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs version 2.0.1
Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs version 3.2.2

Proof of concept

Unknown

Description

Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs and Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs has been updated to address a vulnerability, which may be potentially exploited to compromise the system.

Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs version 2.0 and Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs version 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1, 3.2, and 3.2.1 contain an Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability. A malicious local user can exploit this vulnerability by inheriting a system thread using a leaked thread handle to gain system privileges on the affected machine.

Technical details

Unknown

Credits

Bill Demirkapi

Reference(s)

DSA-2019-088: Dell SupportAssist Security Update for Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability
https://www.dell.com/support/article/br/pt/brdhs1/sln317453/dsa-2019-088-dell-supportassist-security-update-for-improper-privilege-management-vulnerability?lang=en

CVE-2019-3735
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-3735

CVE-2019-3735
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3735

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Last modified: June 22, 2019

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