Dell Peripheral Manager up to 1.7.2 uncontrolled search path

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A vulnerability was found in Dell Peripheral Manager up to 1.7.2. It has been rated as problematic. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-22451. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Dell Peripheral Manager up to 1.7.2. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function. 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 from 1.5.1 to 1.7.2, contain an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability. An attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability through preloading malicious executable, leading to arbitrary code execution.

The weakness was disclosed with QI-ANXIN as dsa-2024-055. The advisory is shared at dell.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-22451 since 01/10/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. 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 $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/17/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1574 for this issue.

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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• Peripheral Manager

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• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.dell.com/

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