CVE-2021-36284
What it is
Dell BIOS contains an Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious administrator could exploit this vulnerability to bypass excessive admin password attempt mitigations in order to carry out a brute force attack.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited locally on the machine with an admin-level account. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.2% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 5.7 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.2% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-307
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Dell Latitude 5310 2-in-1 Firmware < 1.7.0
- Dell Latitude 5320 Firmware < 1.7.0
- Dell Latitude 5400 Firmware < 1.7.1
- Dell Latitude 5411 Firmware < 1.6.0
- Dell Latitude 5500 Firmware < 1.8.0
- Dell Latitude 5520 Firmware < 1.6.0
- Dell Latitude 5511 Firmware < 1.7.1
- Dell Latitude 7212 Rugged Extreme Tablet Firmware < 1.7.0
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 5.7
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
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