CVE-2020-5316: Dell Supportassist For Business Pcs

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3 and Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs version 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.4 contain an uncontrolled search path vulnerability. A locally authenticated low privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to cause the loading of arbitrary DLLs by the SupportAssist binaries, resulting in the privileged execution of arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Dell Supportassist For Business Pcs: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; …
• Dell Supportassist For Home Pcs: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; …

Published 2021-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.