Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs prior 3.14.2 access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs and SupportAssist for Business PCs. Impacted is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in access control. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2023-44283. The attack is only possible with local access. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs and SupportAssist for Business PCs. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs (between v3.0 and v3.14.1) and SupportAssist for Business PCs (between v3.0 and v3.4.1), a security concern has been identified, impacting locally authenticated users on their respective PCs. This issue may potentially enable privilege escalation and the execution of arbitrary code, in the Windows system context, and confined to that specific local PC.

The weakness was released 02/14/2024 as dsa-2023-401. It is possible to read the advisory at dell.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-44283 since 09/28/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/04/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 3.14.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.6

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: SupportAssist for Home PCs/SupportAssist for Business PCs 3.14.2

Timelineinfo

09/28/2023 🔍
02/14/2024 +139 days 🔍
02/14/2024 +0 days 🔍
05/04/2026 +810 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: dell.com

Advisory: dsa-2023-401
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-44283 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-44283
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-253731

Entryinfo

Created: 02/14/2024 09:01
Updated: 05/04/2026 09:22
Changes: 02/14/2024 09:01 (46), 03/06/2024 09:01 (1), 05/04/2026 09:19 (2), 05/04/2026 09:22 (19)
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Committer: lywand
Cache ID: 216::103

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