CVE-2017-2802 is a DLL hijacking vulnerability in the poaService.exe component of Dell Precision Optimizer software version 3.5.5.0. An attacker with local access can achieve privilege escalation by placing a malicious DLL in a PATH environment variable directory. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity, but requires user interaction. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.5.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dell:precision_optimizer:3.5.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.