Security Resilience

CVE-2024-0159

Dell Alienware Command Center 5.2.1.0 – 5.6.1.0

Published
10 April 2024
Modified
31 January 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.7
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0019 8th percentile
Risk Priority 47 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2024-0159 is a medium-severity Insufficient Isolation of Symbolic Constant Definitions (CWE-1107) vulnerability in Dell Alienware Command Center. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data Obfuscation (T1001); ranked at the 8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-15 (Development Process, Standards, and Tools) and SA-8 (Security and Privacy Engineering Principles) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Dell Alienware Command Center, versions 5.5.52.0 and prior, contain improper access control vulnerability, leading to Denial of Service on local system.

CWE(s)
CWE-1107NVD-CWE-Other

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1001 Data Obfuscation Command And Control
Adversaries may obfuscate command and control traffic to make it more difficult to detect.
attack.mitre.org →
T1001.001 Junk Data Command And Control
Adversaries may add junk data to protocols used for command and control to make detection more difficult.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.002 Security Account Manager Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to extract credential material from the Security Account Manager (SAM) database either through in-memory techniques or through the Windows Registry where the SAM database is stored.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.003 NTDS Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to access or create a copy of the Active Directory domain database in order to steal credential information, as well as obtain other information about domain members such as devices, users, and access rights.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.004 LSA Secrets Credential Access
Adversaries with SYSTEM access to a host may attempt to access Local Security Authority (LSA) secrets, which can contain a variety of different credential materials, such as credentials for service accounts.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.005 Cached Domain Credentials Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to access cached domain credentials used to allow authentication to occur in the event a domain controller is unavailable.
attack.mitre.org →
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

dell
alienware command center
5.2.1.0 — 5.6.1.0

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SA-15 Development Process, Standards, and Tools partial match

Requiring a documented development process and standards can mandate centralized placement of symbolic constant definitions.

SA-8 Security and Privacy Engineering Principles partial match

Applying security engineering principles during design and development includes modularity and centralized definition of constants to avoid scattering.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 partial match
blocks

Secure SDLC practices include code organization standards that reduce scattered constant definitions.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
blocks

Secure development life cycle requires centralized, well-managed definitions that reduce scattered symbolic constants.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
removes

A.8.26 only requires that security requirements (including isolation of constants where relevant) be identified and specified during development or acquisition; it does not itself remove existing insufficiently-isolated symbolic constant definitions from first-party source code.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
blocks

A.8.27 mandates establishing and applying security engineering principles (including least privilege, security by design, and design reviews) but does not itself prevent the code-level structural flaw of non-centralized symbolic constants from being introduced or exploited.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly call for centralized constant definitions to avoid duplication and errors.

A.8.8 Management of technical vulnerabilities partial match
removes
A.8.9 Configuration management partial match
removes

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