# CVE-2025-43990: Privilege escalation in Command Monitor (DCM)

> A local low-privileged attacker can exploit unnecessary privileges in Dell Command Monitor to elevate their access rights.

- **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:** 5 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qwqm-p386-7vch

## What is CVE-2025-43990?

CVE-2025-43990 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dell Command Monitor (DCM), published on 5 Nov 2025. 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 Command Monitor (DCM), versions prior to 10.12.3.28, contains an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Elevation of Privileges.

Weakness: CWE-250 (Execution with Unnecessary Privileges)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43990?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dell Command Monitor.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-43990?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-43990 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-43990 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43990 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- Magento APSB25-94 Unauthenticated File Upload to RCE (CVE-2026-XXXX) - Eval Shell + Probe Scanner (github_poc): https://github.com/AMkkk221/CVE-2025-43990-Magento-RCE

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-43990 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-43990 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dell Command Monitor (DCM), published on 5 Nov 2025. 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-2025-43990 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Dell Command Monitor (DCM). 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-2025-43990/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-43990/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-43990
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43990
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-43990

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-43990/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.