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CVE-2020-5316

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-07-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-427

Description

Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3 and Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs version 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.4 contain an uncontrolled search path vulnerability. A locally authenticated low privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to cause the loading of arbitrary DLLs by the SupportAssist binaries, resulting in the privileged execution of arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2 (+1)
• Dell SupportAssist Client Consumer: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2 (+17)

References

• http://www.dell.com/support/article/SLN320101
• http://www.dell.com/support/article/SLN320101

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