7.8

CVE-2019-3742: dell alienware digital delivery

CVSS: 7.8v3.0HighModified
Published 09-08-2019Last modified 17-09-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2019-3742 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in dell alienware digital delivery. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.39%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 09-08-2019
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 17-09-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 2 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.39%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

31%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.39% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.39%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Dell3 products

1 vendor · 3 products

References

1 links