CVE-2025-43991

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

13/10/2025

Last modified:

04/11/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

6.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:dell:supportassist_for_business_pcs::::::::		4.5.3.25254 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:dell:supportassist_for_home_pcs::::::::		4.8.2.29006 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000378367/dsa-2025-362-security-update-for-dell-supportassist-for-home-pcs-and-dell-supportassist-for-business-pcs-vulnerabilities