Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-52535

High

Published: 25 December 2024

Published
25 December 2024
Modified
29 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0036 58.7th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-52535 is a high-severity UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following (CWE-61) vulnerability in Dell Supportassist For Business Pcs. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 41.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs versions 4.6.1 and prior and Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs versions 4.5.0 and prior, contain a symbolic link (symlink) attack vulnerability in the software remediation component. A low-privileged authenticated user could potentially exploit this vulnerability,…

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gaining privileges escalation, leading to arbitrary deletion of files and folders from the system.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

dell
supportassist for business pcs
≤ 4.5.1
dell
supportassist for home pcs
≤ 4.6.2

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References