Dell Peripheral Manager up to 1.7.5 Symbolic Links uncontrolled search path

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Dell Peripheral Manager up to 1.7.5 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Symbolic Links Handler. Such manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-37142. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Dell Peripheral Manager up to 1.7.5. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Symbolic Links Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uncontrolled search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-427. The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Dell Peripheral Manager, versions prior to 1.7.6, contain an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability. An attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability through preloading malicious DLL or symbolic link exploitation, leading to arbitrary code execution and escalation of privilege

The weakness was disclosed by Ouallaout Noureddine as dsa-2024-242. The advisory is available at dell.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-37142 since 06/03/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. 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 08/09/2024). This vulnerability is assigned to T1574 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.7.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.5

VulDB Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.5
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CNA Base Score: 7.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Uncontrolled search path
CWE: CWE-427 / CWE-426
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Peripheral Manager 1.7.6

Timelineinfo

06/03/2024 🔍
07/31/2024 +58 days 🔍
07/31/2024 +0 days 🔍
08/09/2024 +9 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: dell.com

Advisory: dsa-2024-242
Researcher: Ouallaout Noureddine
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-37142 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-37142
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-273242

Entryinfo

Created: 07/31/2024 10:38
Updated: 08/09/2024 12:39
Changes: 07/31/2024 10:38 (65), 08/01/2024 02:12 (1), 08/09/2024 12:39 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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