# CVE-2020-5342: Privilege escalation in Dell Digital Delivery (Cirrus)

> A local low-privileged user can exploit incorrect default permissions to execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges on Dell Digital Delivery.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/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 Mar 2020
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hfw3-rm2f-q8qh

## What is CVE-2020-5342?

CVE-2020-5342 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dell Digital Delivery (Cirrus), published on 9 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Dell Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.2015 contain an incorrect default permissions vulnerability. A locally authenticated low-privileged malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to run an arbitrary executable with administrative privileges on the affected system.

Weakness: CWE-276 (Incorrect Default Permissions)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5342?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dell Digital Delivery.

## How do I fix CVE-2020-5342?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5342 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2020-5342 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5342 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Dell Digital Delivery (Cirrus)

- [CVE-2019-3742](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-3742/): Privilege escalation in Alienware Digital Delivery (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2019-3744](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-3744/): 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-2020-5342 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2020-5342 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dell Digital Delivery (Cirrus), published on 9 Mar 2020. 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-2020-5342 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Dell Digital Delivery (Cirrus). 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-2020-5342/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5342/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5342
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5342
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-5342

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