# CVE-2019-3744: Privilege escalation in Alienware Digital Delivery

> Local attackers can escalate privileges to run malicious code via race condition and path traversal in Dell Digital Delivery.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Aug 2019
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-m6r3-rwcc-3f72

## What is CVE-2019-3744?

CVE-2019-3744 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dell Alienware Digital Delivery, published on 9 Aug 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Dell/Alienware Digital Delivery versions prior to 4.0.41 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A local non-privileged malicious user could exploit a Universal Windows Platform application by manipulating the install software package feature with a race condition and a path traversal exploit in order to run a malicious executable with elevated privileges.

Weakness: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization), CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-3744?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dell Digital Delivery.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-3744?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-3744 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2019-3744 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-3744 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Dell Alienware Digital Delivery

- [CVE-2020-5342](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5342/): Privilege escalation in Dell Digital Delivery (Cirrus) (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2019-3742](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-3742/): Privilege escalation in Alienware Digital Delivery (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2018-11072](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-11072/): Code injection in Dell Digital Delivery (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2025-38739](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38739/): Information disclosure in Dell Digital Delivery (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2024-0155](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0155/): Use after free in Dell Digital Delivery (D3) (high 7.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-3744 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-3744 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dell Alienware Digital Delivery, published on 9 Aug 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-3744 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Dell Alienware Digital Delivery. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-3744/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-3744/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3744
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3744
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-3744

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