CVE-2025-43991CWE-61

CVE-2025-43991

Medium · published October 13, 2025

CVSS v3.1
6.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

SupportAssist for Home PCs versions 4.8.2 and prior and SupportAssist for Business PCs versions 4.5.3 and prior, contain an UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) following vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access to the system could potentially exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files only in that affected system.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00130 · 2.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-61 · UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Published
2025-10-13T19:16Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
dell/supportassist_for_business_pcs< 4.5.3.252544.5.3.25254
dell/supportassist_for_home_pcs< 4.8.2.290064.8.2.29006
References (1)
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000378367/dsa-2025-362-security-update-for-dell-supportassist-for-home-pcs-and-dell-supportassist-for-business-pcs-vulnerabilities · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 OCT 14:30Z
    SupportAssist for Home PCs versions 4.8.2 and prior and SupportAssist for Business PCs versions 4.5.3 and prior, contain an UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink)…
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