Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-24502

High

Published: 03 March 2026

Published
03 March 2026
Modified
05 March 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0018 7.7th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-24502 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Dell Command \| Intel Vpro Out Of Band. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique DLL (T1574.001); ranked at the 7.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and CM-6 (Configuration Settings).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2026-24502 is an Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability (CWE-427) in Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band, affecting versions prior to 4.7.0. Published on 2026-03-03, the issue has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity due to its potential for significant confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with a changed scope.

A low-privileged attacker with local access can exploit this vulnerability, potentially leading to elevation of privileges on the affected system.

Dell Security Advisory DSA-2026-106 provides details on mitigation and patches: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000429179/dsa-2026-106.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A08:2025 Software or Data Integrity Failures

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band, versions prior to 4.7.0, contain an Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Elevation of privileges.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1574.001 DLL Stealth
Adversaries may abuse dynamic-link library files (DLLs) in order to achieve persistence, escalate privileges, and evade defenses.
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T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
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Why these techniques?

CWE-427 uncontrolled search path enables local DLL search order hijacking (T1038) for privilege escalation (T1068).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

dell
command \| intel vpro out of band
≤ 4.7.0

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Directly addresses the vulnerability by requiring timely remediation of flaws through patching the affected Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band software.

CM-6 Configuration Settings good match
prevent

Enforces secure configuration settings such as safe DLL search order mode to mitigate uncontrolled search path exploitation.

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match
prevent

Enforces strict access controls on directories in the application's search path to prevent low-privileged attackers from placing malicious libraries.

References