# CVE-2024-22452: Privilege escalation in Dell Display and Peripheral Manager

> A low-privilege user can modify installation files to execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges in Dell Display and Peripheral Manager for macOS.

- **Severity:** High 7.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/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:** 4 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-955p-rhm2-9c6j

## What is CVE-2024-22452?

CVE-2024-22452 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dell Display and Peripheral Manager	, published on 4 Mar 2024. 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

Dell Display and Peripheral Manager for macOS prior to 1.3 contains an improper access control vulnerability. A low privilege user could potentially exploit this vulnerability by modifying files in the installation folder to execute arbitrary code, leading to privilege escalation.

Weakness: CWE-264

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-22452?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dell Display and Peripheral Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-22452?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-22452 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-22452 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-22452 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Dell Display and Peripheral Manager	

- [CVE-2026-46731](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-46731/): Auth bypass in Display and Peripheral Manager (DDPM Windows) (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2026-59914](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-59914/): Auth bypass in Display and Peripheral Manager (DDPM Windows) (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2026-59916](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-59916/): Privilege escalation in Display and Peripheral Manager (DDPM Windows) (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2026-59917](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-59917/): Privilege escalation in Display and Peripheral Manager (DDPM Windows) (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2026-59912](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-59912/): Privilege escalation in Display and Peripheral Manager (DDPM Mac) (high 7.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-22452 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-22452 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dell Display and Peripheral Manager	, published on 4 Mar 2024. 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-2024-22452 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Dell Display and Peripheral Manager	. 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-2024-22452/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22452/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-22452
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22452
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-22452

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22452/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.