High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 12, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-21545

Description

Dell Peripheral Manager 1.3.1 or greater contains remediation for a local privilege escalation vulnerability that could be potentially exploited to gain arbitrary code execution on the system with privileges of the system user.

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Affected products

Dell/Peripheral Manager2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:dell:peripheral_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:dell:peripheral_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <1.3.1
- (no CPE)range: >=1.3.1
Dell/Display And Peripheral Managercpe-rescue
Range: unspecified

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References

www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000185100/dsa-2021-079-dell-client-security-update-for-dell-peripheral-manager-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilitynvdVendor Advisory

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