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Digital DeliveryApplication · Dell

CVE-2018-11072

HIGH · 7.8 CVSS v3.0 Published 2018-10-02
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 3.5.1 or later.
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80/100
Remediation priority · High
Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Dell Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.1 contain a DLL Injection Vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user with advance knowledge of the application workflow could potentially load and execute a malicious DLL with administrator privileges.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · moderate confidence

Dell Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.1 contain a DLL injection vulnerability that allows a local authenticated user with knowledge of the application workflow to load and execute a malicious DLL with administrator privileges.

MitigationUpdate Dell Digital Delivery to version 3.5.1 or later to remediate the DLL injection vulnerability.

Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.

Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Digital DeliveryApplication
Affected:< 3.5.1

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Verify Dell Digital Delivery is installed
    Open Windows Control Panel, navigate to Programs and Features, and look for 'Dell Digital Delivery' in the list of installed applications
    Affected if Dell Digital Delivery appears in the installed programs list and the version is less than 3.5.1
  2. Determine the installed version number
    Right-click on Dell Digital Delivery in the programs list and select Properties, or launch the application and check the About/Help section for the version information
    Affected if The displayed version number is below 3.5.1 (for example, 3.5.0, 3.1.0, etc.)
  3. Confirm user privileges on the system
    Open Command Prompt and run 'whoami' to verify you are an authenticated local user with standard or elevated privileges
    Affected if You have local user account credentials and the Dell Digital Delivery service runs with higher privileges than your standard user account

A user is affected if Dell Digital Delivery version is installed and the version number is less than 3.5.1, allowing a local authenticated attacker to perform DLL injection with elevated privileges.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

From vendor data
Upgrade available Upgrade to 3.5.1 or later
Fixed in 3.5.1
Interim mitigation

Update Dell Digital Delivery to version 3.5.1 or later to remediate the DLL injection vulnerability.

Fix this in Digital Delivery Scoped from the published advisory
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  • Implementation1.0 h
  • Testing3.0 h
  • Review / QA1.0 h
7.0 hours of engineering $1,210
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

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