CVE-2019-3745 Code injection in Dell Encryption Enterprise
A local attacker can execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges by placing a malicious DLL in the installer's search path during installation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-3745?
CVE-2019-3745 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Dell Encryption Enterprise, published on 7 Oct 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The vulnerability is limited to the installers of Dell Encryption Enterprise versions prior to 10.4.0 and Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise versions prior to 2.4.0. This issue is exploitable only during the installation of the product by an administrator. A local authenticated low privileged user potentially could exploit this vulnerability by staging a malicious DLL in the search path of the installer prior to its execution by a local administrator. This would cause loading of the malicious DLL, which would allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of an administrator.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-3745?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Dell Encryption, Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise.
How do I fix CVE-2019-3745?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-3745 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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Is CVE-2019-3745 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-3745 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Dell Encryption Enterprise
- CVE-2025-36564 Privilege escalation in Encryption Admin Utilities
- CVE-2018-15766 Dell Encryption and Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise Security Policy Overwrite Vulnerability
- CVE-2025-46637 Path traversal in Dell Encryption
- CVE-2025-36611 Path traversal in Encryption
- CVE-2023-32479 Privilege escalation in Dell Encryption
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5hp5-8cvm-4m2x.