🛡️ CVE-2025-46602 — supportassist-os-recovery

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-46602 is classified as CWE-538: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory. The product places sensitive information into files or directories that are accessible to actors who are allowed to have access to the files, but not to the sensitive information.

Affected software

CVE-2025-46602 is recorded against 1 package.

• supportassist-os-recovery (fixed in 5.5.15.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 27 October 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.dell.com

Other advisories for this package

supportassist-os-recovery has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2025-46685 (7.5 High, published 13 Jan 2026)
• CVE-2025-46684 (6.6 Medium, published 13 Jan 2026)
• CVE-2025-38747 (7.8 High, published 6 Aug 2025)
• CVE-2025-38746 (3.5 Low, published 6 Aug 2025)
• CVE-2025-22480 (7.0 High, published 13 Feb 2025)
• CVE-2022-26865 (6.8 Medium, published 26 May 2022)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-538: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory) in other software:

• CVE-2026-12762 (5.3 Medium, published 5 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-15574 (7.5 High, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-27173 (8.0 High, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-36372 (5.5 Medium, published 30 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-50099 (4.6 Medium, published 12 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-29114 (published 10 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-49298 (8.0 High, published 5 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-5434 (5.9 Medium, published 21 May 2026)

Details

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References