What is CVE-2009-5152?

CVE-2009-5152 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Absolute Computrace Agent, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 4.1/10. Published 2018-05-11.

How severe is CVE-2009-5152?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Absolute Computrace Agent

CVE-2009-5152

Absolute Computrace Agent, as distributed on certain Dell Inspiron systems through 2009, has a race condition with the Dell Client Configuration Utility (DCCU), which allows privileged local users to change Computrace Agent's activation/deactivation status to the factory default via a crafted TaskResult.xml file.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.002 (11.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Absolute Computrace_agent
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition)

References

cve@mitre.org (Technical Description, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2009-5152?: CVE-2009-5152 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Absolute Computrace Agent, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 4.1/10. Published 2018-05-11.
How severe is CVE-2009-5152?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.1 out of 10.