Description
SupportAssist for Home PCs versions 4.8.2 and prior and SupportAssist for Business PCs versions 4.5.3 and prior, contain an UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) following vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access to the system could potentially exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files only in that affected system.
Affected products
dell: supportassist for business pcs; dell: supportassist for home pcs
References1
- www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000378367/dsa-2025-362-securit… Vendor Advisory
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.1
HIGH
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 3 · as of 9 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-61
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