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Dell SupportAssist Privilege Escalation (DSA-2025-445)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 279409

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Synopsis

The remote Windows host contains a Dell SupportAssist installation affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

The remote Windows host contains an installation of Dell SupportAssist that is affected by an elevation of privilege vulnerability:

 - Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs (versions 4.8.2.29006 and prior) and Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs (versions 4.9.0.40943 and prior) contain a UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability by creating symbolic links to point to files with higher permissions, leading to an elevation of privileges.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs to version 4.10.1 or later and Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs to version 4.9.0 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?82689d46

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 279409

File Name: dell_support_assist_DSA-2025-445.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 12/19/2025

Updated: 2/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-46681

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:dell:supportassist

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Dell SupportAssist

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-46681

IAVA: 2025-A-0935