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Vulnerability record · CVE-2025-43991 · published 13 October 2025

CVE-2025-43991: Dell supportassist for business pcs vulnerability

Dell · Supportassist For Business Pcs

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.

7.1 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 0.13% · top 97.8% CWE-61 · CWE-61
7.1CVSS 3.1 base score
0.13%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
2Affected product versions listed by NVD
1References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000378367/dsa-2025-362-security-update-for-dell-supportassist-for-home-pcs-and- Vendor Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2025-43991), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-28). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.