# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.7 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/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:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Oct 2019
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5hp5-8cvm-4m2x

## 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.

Weakness: CWE-426 (Untrusted Search Path), CWE-427 (Uncontrolled Search Path Element)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-3745?

It affects 2 products.


Products: 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.

## 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-36564/): Privilege escalation in Encryption Admin Utilities (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2018-15766](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-15766/): Dell Encryption and Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise Security Policy Overwrite Vulnerability (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2025-46637](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46637/): Path traversal in Dell Encryption (high 7.3)
- [CVE-2025-36611](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-36611/): Path traversal in Encryption (high 7.3)
- [CVE-2023-32479](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-32479/): Privilege escalation in Dell Encryption (medium 6.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-3745 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-3745 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Dell Encryption Enterprise. 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-2019-3745/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-3745/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3745
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3745
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-3745

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