Dell/Alienware Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.2013 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability.

published 2019-08-09 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-13377

cvss: 7.8; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

dell digital_delivery 3.5.2013, 4.0.41

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Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

Dell Dell Digital Delivery
Dell Alienware Digital Delivery

References

dell.com /support/article/SLN318085
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-3742
NVD CVE-2019-3742

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