Local privilege escalation through Advanced Driver Restore
Published Apr 1, 2022 · Updated Sep 16, 2024
Local privilege escalation in Dell Command | Update 4.4.0 allows local users to gain elevated privileges through Advanced Driver Restore. Dell identifies the affected component but has not published the vulnerable operation or its handling of attacker-controlled input. Exploitation requires an existing low-privileged local account; success grants elevated privileges, although the resulting privilege level is unspecified.
Summary
What happened
Local privilege escalation in Dell Command | Update 4.4.0 allows local users to gain elevated privileges through Advanced Driver Restore. Dell identifies the affected component but has not published the vulnerable operation or its handling of attacker-controlled input. Exploitation requires an existing low-privileged local account; success grants elevated privileges, although the resulting privilege level is unspecified.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-24426
- Published
- Apr 1, 2022
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Vendor
- Dell
- Product
- Dell Command | Update
- Classifications
- T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 1, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 16, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.4.0
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