CVE-2019-3742 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2019-3742

Dell/Alienware Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.2013 contain a privilege...

Vulnerability Description

Dell/Alienware Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.2013 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A local non-privileged malicious user could exploit a named pipe that performs binary deserialization via a process hollowing technique to inject malicous code to run an executable with elevated privileges.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Dell would like to thank Alexander Bolshev, Security Consultant, IOActive and Enrique Nissim, Senior Security Consultant, IOActive for reporting these vulnerabilities.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Dell Digital Delivery, Alienware Digital Delivery
Vulnerable Versions:
prior to 3.5.2013

Timeline

Official Publish: August 9th, 2019
Last Modified: September 17th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.