CVE-2021-21545

high

Description

Dell Peripheral Manager 1.3.1 or greater contains remediation for a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could be potentially exploited to gain arbitrary code execution on the system with privileges of the system user.

References

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000185100/dsa-2021-079-dell-client-security-update-for-dell-peripheral-manager-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-04-12

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H