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CVE-2009-5152

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-05-11 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Absolute Computrace Agent, as distributed on certain Dell Inspiron systems through 2009, has a race condition with the Dell Client Configuration Utility (DCCU), which allows privileged local users to change Computrace Agent's activation/deactivation status to the factory default via a crafted TaskResult.xml file.

Affected products

• Absolute Computrace Agent: all versions

References

• https://www.coresecurity.com/system/files/publications/2016/05/Paper-Deactivate-the-Rootkit-AOrtega-ASacco.pdf
• https://www.coresecurity.com/system/files/publications/2016/05/Paper-Deactivate-the-Rootkit-AOrtega-ASacco.pdf

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