Dell dbutil Driver Insufficient Access Control Vulnerability (CVE-2021-21551)
Severity: high · Patch status: patched · Since 2022-03-31 · CVE-2021-21551
Dell dbutil driver contains an insufficient access control vulnerability which may lead to escalation of privileges, denial-of-service (DoS), or information disclosure. CISA added CVE-2021-21551 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Mar 31, 2022, which means attackers are exploiting it in the wild.
What to do
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- US federal agencies must remediate by Apr 21, 2022 (BOD 22-01); treat that as the outer limit.
Sources
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