CVE-2021-36284

State
Published
Severity
5.7 Medium
Published
Sep 28, 2021
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Jul 8, 2021

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.7 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Ldell

Weaknesses

  • CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Affected Products

ProductVersions
CPG BIOSDell
  • before 1.7.0Affected

References

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