CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5361

7.6 HIGH Published 2021-01-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-01-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-640

Description

Select Dell Client Commercial and Consumer platforms support a BIOS password reset capability that is designed to assist authorized customers who forget their passwords. Dell is aware of unauthorized password generation tools that can generate BIOS recovery passwords. The tools, which are not authorized by Dell, can be used by a physically present attacker to reset BIOS passwords and BIOS-managed Hard Disk Drive (HDD) passwords. An unauthenticated attacker with physical access to the system could potentially exploit this vulnerability to bypass security restrictions for BIOS Setup configuration, HDD access and BIOS pre-boot authentication.

Affected configurations

• dell cpg bios

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password weakness

References