CVE-2025-43991 Path traversal in SupportAssist for Business PCs

What is CVE-2025-43991?

CVE-2025-43991 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs, published on 13 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

SupportAssist for Home PCs versions 4.8.2 and prior and SupportAssist for Business PCs versions 4.5.3 and prior, contain an UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) following vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access to the system could potentially exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files only in that affected system.

Weakness: CWE-61

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43991?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Dell Supportassist for Business Pcs, Dell Supportassist for Home Pcs.

How do I fix CVE-2025-43991?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-43991 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2025-43991 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43991 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs

• CVE-2022-29095 Cross-site scripting in SupportAssist Consumer High 8.3
• CVE-2023-44283 Privilege escalation in SupportAssist for Business PCs High 7.8
• CVE-2022-29092 Privilege escalation in SupportAssist Consumer High 7.8
• CVE-2020-5316 Other in Dell SupportAssist Client High 7.8
• CVE-2019-12280 Path traversal in n/a High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6xc8-63f8-5g3w.