Amateur mistake leaves PCs with Dell Support Assistant vulnerable to privilege escalation attack

Security research company SafeBreach Lab has discovered a vulnerability in Dell’s SupportAssist utility, bundled with tens of millions of Dell PCs, which could allow unauthorized local users or low-privilege apps to take control of a PC. The issue is that the SupportAssist app runs with SYSTEM privileges, which allows the app to install new drivers […] Read More:

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