CVE-2021-36297: Dell Supportassist For Home Pcs

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SupportAssist Client version 3.8 and 3.9 contains an Untrusted search path vulnerability that allows attackers to load an arbitrary .dll file via .dll planting/hijacking, only by a separate administrative action that is not a default part of the SOSInstallerTool.exe installation for executing arbitrary dll's,

Affected products

• Dell Supportassist For Home Pcs: before 3.9.0 (fixed in 3.9.0)

Published 2021-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.