Security News > 2021 > May > High-Severity Dell Driver Vulnerabilities Impact Hundreds of Millions of Devices
Owners of Dell devices were informed on Tuesday that a firmware update driver present on a large number of systems is affected by a series of high-severity vulnerabilities.
Dell says the vulnerabilities, caused by insufficient access control issues, can be exploited by a local, authenticated attacker for privilege escalation, denial of service, or information disclosure.
The driver was installed on Dell devices when one of the impacted utilities was used.
SentinelOne believes the driver is present on hundreds of millions of Dell desktop, laptop, notebook and tablet devices worldwide.
Dell has released patches and it has advised users to immediately remove the vulnerable driver file.
SentinelOne said the vulnerable driver may be found on devices shipped by Dell since 2009.