CVE-2021-21545

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Apr 12, 2021
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2021-21545: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix