Dell Dock Firmware Update Utilities for Dell Client Consumer and Commercial docking stations contain an Arbitrary File Overwrite vulnerability. The vulnerability is limited to the Dell Dock Firmware Update Utilities during the time window while being executed by an administrator. During this time window, a locally authenticated low-privileged malicious user could exploit this vulnerability by tricking an administrator into overwriting arbitrary files via a symlink attack. The vulnerability does not affect the actual binary payload that the update utility delivers.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: dell

Published: 2020-05-28T19:20:12.112405Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T22:09:55.405Z

Reserved: 2020-01-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-5357

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-05-28T20:15:12.037

Modified: 2020-05-29T20:02:24.433

Link: CVE-2020-5357

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