Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2026-25908 is a medium-severity Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (CWE-250) vulnerability in Dell Alienware Command Center. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 0.7th 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 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-6 (Least Privilege) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2026-25908 is an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability (CWE-250) in Dell Alienware Command Center (AWCC), affecting versions prior to 6.13.8.0. Published on 2026-04-27T18:16:53.360, the issue has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.7 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating medium severity with high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability if exploited.
A low-privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability to achieve elevation of privileges. Exploitation requires high attack complexity and user interaction, limiting its practicality but allowing an attacker to gain higher privileges on the affected system.
Dell's security advisory DSA-2026-192 provides a security update for AWCC 6.x addressing multiple vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-25908. Security practitioners should recommend updating to version 6.13.8.0 or later to mitigate the risk.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-25897
Vulnerability Data
Dell Alienware Command Center (AWCC), versions prior to 6.13.8.0, contain an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in the AWCC. A low privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Elevation of Privileges.
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in a locally-installed Dell utility directly enables local privilege escalation; ATT&CK maps this to T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly counters execution with unnecessary privileges by ensuring AWCC and related processes operate with the minimum access rights required, preventing low-privileged local attackers from escalating privileges.
Requires timely flaw remediation, such as applying Dell's AWCC update to version 6.13.8.0 or later, directly eliminating the vulnerability and blocking exploitation.
Enforces approved access control policies at the system level, mediating and blocking unauthorized privilege escalations attempted via the AWCC vulnerability.
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.AA-05 directly enforces least privilege so largely eliminates CWE-250 at design time, yet the weakness can still arise from runtime escalation paths, third-party code, or misapplied role definitions outside this single control.
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.
Requiring explicit justification and time-limited grants discourages the routine allocation of unnecessary privileges that would otherwise allow execution with more rights than required.
Restricting privileged utilities to the fewest trusted users and requiring explicit authorization directly stops developers or operators from embedding or invoking code that runs with unnecessary elevated rights.
Mandating separate non-privileged identities for routine work and restricting privileged accounts to administrative tasks reduces the chance that everyday operations run with unnecessary elevated rights.
The control explicitly calls for minimizing privileged identities and disabling unnecessary accounts, thereby reducing the number of processes that run with unnecessary privileges.
The requirement to restrict privileged access and apply segregation of duties limits the number of processes or accounts that must run with elevated rights, lowering the impact of unnecessary privilege assignments.
Forcing distinct roles for initiating versus executing changes reduces the chance that an individual will run with unnecessary privileges to perform both steps.