A vulnerability was found in Dell Encryption and Endpoint Security Security Suite up to 10.7. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component Incomplete Fix CVE-2020-5358. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission assignment vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-732. The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Dell Encryption versions prior to 10.8 and Dell Endpoint Security Suite versions prior to 2.8 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-5358. A local malicious user with low privileges could potentially exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privilege on the affected system with the help of a symbolic link.

The weakness was released 08/18/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at dell.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-5385 since 01/03/2020. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. A single authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 10.8 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Dell

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• Encryption
• Endpoint Security Security Suite

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• 10.0
• 10.1
• 10.2
• 10.3
• 10.4
• 10.5
• 10.6
• 10.7

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• commercial

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