CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-36285

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2021-09-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-09-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-307

Description

Dell BIOS contains an Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious administrator could exploit this vulnerability to bypass excessive NVMe password attempt mitigations in order to carry out a brute force attack.

Affected configurations

• 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) • dell latitude 7280 firmware (< 1.9.1) • dell latitude 7320 firmware (< 1.7.0) • dell latitude 7370 firmware (< 1.7.1) • dell latitude 7420 firmware (< 1.7.0) • dell latitude 7480 firmware (< 1.7.1) • dell latitude 9410 firmware (< 1.7.1) • dell latitude 9510 firmware (< 1.7.0) • dell latitude 9520 firmware (< 1.6.0) • dell optiplex 3080 firmware (< 1.5.2) • dell optiplex 3280 aio firmware (< 1.2.0) • dell optiplex 7480 aio firmware (< 1.2.0) • dell precision 3551 ffirmware (< 1.6.2) • dell precision 3640 tower firmware (< 1.7.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts weakness

References