Dell Peripheral Manager up to 1.7.5 Symbolic Links uncontrolled search path

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A vulnerability was found in Dell Peripheral Manager up to 1.7.5. It has been rated as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Symbolic Links Handler. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-37127. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Dell Peripheral Manager up to 1.7.5 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown function 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. The summary by CVE is:

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 published by Ouallaout Noureddine as dsa-2024-242. The advisory is shared at dell.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-37127 since 06/03/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/28/2024). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1574 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.7.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Dell

Name

• Peripheral Manager

Version

• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.dell.com/

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