CVE-2019-3742

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 9, 2019 at 07:12 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:35 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorDigital Delivery

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

Dell/Alienware Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.2013 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A local non-privileged malicious user could exploit a named pipe that performs binary deserialization via a process hollowing technique to inject malicous code to run an executable with elevated privileges.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 3.5.20134.0.15.0 ≤ v < 4.0.41
Affected range stops below 3.5.2013, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.0.41, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (1)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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