A vulnerability has been found in Dell SupportAssist Client Consumer, SupportAssist Client Commercial, Command Update, Update and Alienware Update and classified as very critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown function of the component Advanced Driver Restore Component. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unnecessary privileges vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-250. The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Dell SupportAssist Client Consumer (version 3.11.1 and prior), SupportAssist Client Commercial (version 3.2 and prior), Dell Command | Update, Dell Update, and Alienware Update versions before 4.5 contain a Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the Advanced Driver Restore component. A local malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to privilege escalation.

The weakness was disclosed 02/11/2023. The advisory is shared for download at dell.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-34384 since 06/23/2022. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 02/11/2023). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Alienware Update
• Command Update
• SupportAssist Client Commercial
• SupportAssist Client Consumer
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