Vulnerabilityhigh
Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-21551 | Local Privilege Escalation in Dell dbutil_2_3.sys Driver | 7.8 | 80% | KEVPoC ×2 | KEV |
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Hundreds of millions of Dell desktops, laptops, notebooks, and tablets will need to update their Dell DBUtil driver to fix a 12-year-old vulnerability that exposes systems to attacks. The bug, tracked as CVE-2021-21551 , impacts version 2. 3 of DBUtil, a Dell BIOS driver that allows the OS and system apps to interact with the computer's BIOS and hardware.
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