Dell Client Consumer/Commercial Platform Management Interface improper authorization

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Dell Client Consumer and Commercial Platform. Affected is an unknown function of the component Management Interface. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2020-5362. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Dell Client Consumer and Commercial Platform (unknown version). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Management Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Dell Client Consumer and Commercial platforms include an improper authorization vulnerability in the Dell Manageability interface for which an unauthorized actor, with local system access with OS administrator privileges, could bypass the BIOS Administrator authentication to restore BIOS Setup configuration to default values.

The weakness was presented 06/10/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-5362 since 01/03/2020. Local access is required to approach this attack. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/11/2020). This vulnerability is assigned to T1548.002 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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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• Dell

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• Client Consumer
• Commercial Platform

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.dell.com/

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