Watchdog Timer Driver
Monthly
Privilege escalation in Dell Watchdog Timer Driver versions prior to 2.0.0.1 allows a local low-privileged attacker to gain full system control by abusing an improperly access-controlled IOCTL interface exposed by the kernel driver. The CVSS scope-changed score of 8.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C) reflects that exploitation crosses the kernel trust boundary, yielding complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No public exploit or active exploitation (CISA KEV) has been identified at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity makes this a meaningful local privilege escalation risk on Dell-equipped systems.
Privilege escalation in Dell Watchdog Timer Driver versions prior to 2.0.0.1 allows a local low-privileged attacker to gain full system control by abusing an improperly access-controlled IOCTL interface exposed by the kernel driver. The CVSS scope-changed score of 8.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C) reflects that exploitation crosses the kernel trust boundary, yielding complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No public exploit or active exploitation (CISA KEV) has been identified at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity makes this a meaningful local privilege escalation risk on Dell-equipped systems.